PART TWO - RANGEThe newest designs were to be price-competitive with top-end rotaries.
These were the lightweight
Qualcast Super 12 and
Qualcast Super 14 reel
machines. These sold well in Australia, but in a limited, niche market.
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The top of the Qualcast reel range here was the Admiral 17 Inch, a close copy
of the Suffolk machine [Suffolk was acquired by the Qualcast Group in the 1950s.]
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The petrol power plants were the venerable
Suffolk 4-strokes.
This is a great specification summary:-
The manual push mower was all but dead, with just one model offered -
the Qualcast Classic. This would be before the revival of the 'pushie'
in the 1980s.