All interesting and speculative, I love it. I would agree with Jack that a 69/70 model is most likely and then all manufacturing of mowers ceased due to Stanley’s doctrine of if it didn’t make a profit it was gone. After two years of drought profit dropped so the mowers went. Jack I will leave this bit of history for you as I know you are well aware of these events.
Max the D69 on the Kirby engine plate is just coincidence, I have a few other Kirby KAV engines with different and some the same spec numbers. Perhaps with the downturn in profit the spending was cut on brochures, advertising etc and we may never see a brochure for these years. I will be ringing Joe Brown soon, he sent me all of his Turner brochures and parts booklets but there is nothing after August 1968. I want to ask him what happened in those last years of Turner, perhaps he may be able to help as he was at the pointy end of the game.
After a few more projects I will start on my Turner Saphire, haven’t seen another. The mower was in Victoria and a friend of mine collected it for me and just recently posted it up to me in pieces. It needs some repairs done mainly to the axles/height adjuster but will just be getting a good clean as it goes back together.
