Max that’s a very interesting model featuring a decal on the front instead of a cast name/emblem. What is even more exciting is it’s a model that I haven’t seen before, it has a full width rear flap! Looking closely at the back of a mower there is a full lip running across the deck suggesting a totally new design base doing away with the rear step and half chute. All other rear catcher models had only a small chute cover that lifted up and sat on top of the catcher.
Having the flap on the mower and not as a part of the catcher was definitely the way forward.
Are you able to supply more pics of this model as it may well be the last they produced. The end must have come quickly for the Mower Division as it looks like they didn’t slow down development or production at all leading up to the end.
