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PART SEVEN – Bosclip Lightweight Electric Lawnmower
In researching this story, the most significant unknown-to-me was
that Bosclip made an electric lawnmower!

Given what I have said in previous posts about Bosclip advertising, I better
come clean about the name of the Bosclip lawnmower … it was the Playboy.

This ad set back feminism about a decade or so. Just look at the model
and read the print copy … Mercy!

This machine seems to have been introduced in late 1969 for
the 1970 season. I have not found any ads post 1969 ...



There are a few points I would like to draw your attention to …

[1] No one seems to have recorded this rare lawnmower!
[2] The use of the word ‘lightweight’ precedes Victa’s use of it by almost a decade!
[3] This was Australia’s first electric rear-catcher lawnmower!
[4] I have found only a couple of poor newsprint images!
[5] The styling seems borrowed … think … Tecnico!

TO BE CONTINUED …