Hello
ODK history lovers
The
Deckson Executive was a 26” garden tractor made by
John Deck & Sons of Smithfield, Sydney, NSW.
Little is known about this model, but at least one survives...
Dating is
c1976 and I have found but one newsprint advertisement.
It is rear-engined and seems to have been marketed between the
popular Rover
Colt and Rover
Ranger. The engine was, best guess,
a Briggs Model 17 vertical shaft.
The drive presents as
similar to the Cox system – of an
engine-mounted friction cone acting between friction plates
producing instant forward and reverse via a RH side lever.
That is not surprising; given that John Deck & Son were the distributors
for
Owen Cox mowers in New South Wales.
TO BE CONTINUED ...