PART SIX - Robert & Stanley - Revisited

Because this is such an important pioneering lawnmower manufacturer, I wish I
knew more about the participants and why they got into making lawnmowers before
there was any incentive to do so.

Robert Grant - the engineer - is almost a total mystery. I know his occupation
and his business addresses at Pitt Street and at Fivedock. I know he was an
inventor, and he sold marine and horticultural products ... lawnmowers. That's it.

Stanley Vickery - the grazier - is a little bit easier, and less interesting.
Born into a family with wealth and 'connections', he was part of the respectable
Sydney scene. I don't know how Robert & Stanley met in the early 1920s, but I
can't help but feel that Stanley was the financier, and that his name as "Actual
Inventor" reflected commercial reality rather than creative engineering talent.

He did have a lovely home on Victoria Street though, and his three daughters
kept the social pages busy ...

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Robert Grant and Stanley Vickery parted ways in 1930.
It must have been amicable though; as Grant would keep the founding
company name of Grant & Vickery until the company's demise in the 1950s.

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TO BE CONTINUED ...