Hello ODK History Lovers
Victa's second decade of production - the 1960s - was as dramatic a change by any company in
Australian lawnmower history. I would describe Victa's rise as a somewhat controlled explosion;
a meteoric rise of unprecedented proportions ...

How did Victa introduce its plan?

In late 1960, the Victa group - Victa Consolidated Industries Pty Ltd - would announce that it
would become a public company, know as Victa Development Corporation Ltd. This was a change
in focus from the company's view expressed in their mid-1950's self-funded model in their
development of the company at that time. The 1960s was Victa's time and a new era in their history.

This is the History Record for the Victa Sheerline, the introductory model for the 'swinging' 1960s.
The chronology of the Sheerline has been misunderstood and this article attempts to correct the record.

The Sheerlines were Victa's Model 6 and Model 9 mowers. By accepted chronological logic, the Model 6
was designed prior to the Model 9. But that is not how the Sheerline was introduced!

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Advertising records in print and TV advertising show the first production Sheerline was the Model 9 -
a beautiful, stylised lawnmower that broke the 'toecutter' mould that represented Victa's 1950's designs.

The Sheerline represented a radical change in Victa's design philosophy - Victa's first fixed-skirt alloy
base; Victa's first lawnmower to take a factory-made grass catcher.

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TO BE CONTINUED ...