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Hello ODK history lovers,
Precision Mowers Pty. Ltd. of 977 Mt. Alexander Road, Essendon,
Melbourne, were “Manufacturers and Distributors” of both reel and
rotary mowers in the 1950s.

Their most successful machine was the petrol-powered Precision
14” reel lawnmower.

I have written about these mowers on ODK [see related Reading].

But Precision also made a rotary lawnmower – the Rotamow – from about 1956.

This was a shallow-skirted alloy-based mower powered by the same
British Trojan 2-stroke used on their popular powered reel mowers.
There may have been two sizes …

Little information survives as I write. Scant Information suggests they were
made in two sizes: the 15” powered by the Trojan; the 18” powered by the
Australian Hurricane 2-stroke.





TO BE CONTINUED ...

There are few newsprint records of the Precision Rotamow.
I suspect this is because of the lack of digitisation of post-1954 records.

Nonetheless, I have recorded auction sales from 2015 and 2016.

The best images – of the larger, 18” Hurricane-powered machine
come from Kye’s Facebook page on vintage mowers. Many thanks to
Kye and Paul C for images of what is a mostly original 18” machine.

In the Gallery below there is a selection of images for the Rotamow.
It's pretty clear the two sizes have different chassis designs...