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So A thought has just occurred to me... What about modern history? (Modern relative to what we normally discuss)

I'm just roughing out a timeline of milestone's and flagships to help me write up a few articles, and it's occurred to me that there are some things that are, well, hard to pin down because they are recent... but if we don't make note of these things now, well, they wont be there in future...

Writing up my little roughout timeline is easy for the early stuff... First Recoil Starter, Victa Special, First Catcher, Sheerline, First Rear Catcher, Viceroy, First Hi Arch, VC-160, first Mono-Bloc Engine, Vortex...

But Victa used to care more about such things, half of this info I don't even need to dig hard to find, old V-Code posters with images, parts books, etc, it's basic dot-pointing for skeleton-ing out an article...

But I get to first "Mulching Mower", first Mulch or Catch, and well...??? Proper Mulching wasn't something domestic mowers were fussed with till much more recently, you either cut or catch, and even the commercial scene didn't get it from Victa till more recently in the timeline... But when?? On What??

Are there things we should be recording here now so they are not forgotten when we need them...

For example, it's likely we can record the last Victa 2-stroke produced, because it's unlikely they will bring in a new line of 2-strokes... and there is only one mower you can still buy new with the power torque on it... the 560 Mulchmaster (MSP562).

When did Victa last offer a 2-stroke Domestic? Did anyone take note? I think they had 3 in 2015, but that's the last time I checked...

It might be an idea to think about how to save these facts for when they are history... I mean if you can't trust it of the kind of folk obsessed enough with mowers to do what we do, who can you trust to record it? Thoughts?