Hi BT,

Any where between 1968 and 72 for this one. The 17 & 20 inch machines are near impossible to accurately date in Series 1 as they were all originally fitted with Kirby Lauson engines (non date identifiable) and not Briggs engines which were stamp dated and thus one could ascertain an approximation.

The Briggs were only fitted to the 14 inch machines and they had to still have their original engine fitted which is rapidly becoming no longer the norm.

BTW the number on the ID plate doesn't really help us at all as they don't seem to follow in sequence and also the original books that had all the individual mowers written down as they were made have been long destroyed, one thing to take into account is that SB made many different models and they were not built in runs of a particular model, rather they were built on an order placed basis.

Cheers,
BB.

I live a 24 Hour lifestyle, but every now and again I seem to fall asleep, well at least that's what my wife tells me.