Hello
ODK history lovers
This record discusses a 14” electric reel lawnmower
sold here from about
1949.
Branded as a
‘Lawnshaver’, this mower is little known, nor understood.
My best guess is that this was an Australian built machine
using an imported
Hoover electric engine.
The motor directly powered the reel via a handle-mounted
on-off switch. Interestingly, the landroll had its own friction clutch
mounted behind the motor, controlled by a handle trigger lever.
The
Lawnshaver was a very odd design. Notice the large space
between the motor and reel assembly! I can’t say that makes any
sense to me, and would have been a design recipe for scalping
over uneven lawn.
TO BE CONTINUED …