thanks Lennyb finally someone has the same model as me. and i did just recently acquire an identical catcher as per your pic. saves me having to dig my mower out of the shed to test it for fit.now i know its the correct one. cheers
If my collection is complete ( then how come i keep buying stuff ? ) 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Hiiii CyberJack. It's a shame no one had GM technology to develop purple buffalo grass and the resultant disco purple clippings. I'm surprised if Rover didn't release a purple base with sky blue 3.5hp B&S vertical start. Just imagine the female attention that would bring.
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
Hey Cyber-boogie-Jack, John Travolta may not have felt the need to escape to the dance floor if the hardware store of his vocation sold mirror ball purple Victa and Super Swift machines would he!!
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
They don't make them like they use to, which is very sad. I've got a near new SupaSwift mower sitting in the shed if anyone wants it? Going cheap. One problem with it (and one problem only): The belt keeps running off. No matter what you do or how many times you replace it, go three rounds of your front lawn and without fail the belt runs off.
VM, have you thought about making up a guide to keep the belt from running off?
Hi Norm, I tried that. It still seems to find a way to jump off. The little plastic jockey pulley is too weak for the task and warps as soon as the belt comes under tension. A mate of mine reckoned he could fix it by putting a cast pulley on it the same size as the plastic one. When I took the mower to him, and he saw the tiny space into which the pulley fits, he was suddenly no longer interested.
G;day Max I think you first raised evidence for Supa-Swift Popes.
It now appears that when Simpson-Pope ceased production of lawnmowers in the mid-1970s, they entered some agreement with Supa-Swift to brand Supa-Swift machines as Popes.
Your machine must be quite rare: given that Supa-Swift would, itself, fall into new hands.
Gidday Jack Yes I found an ad for a SupaSwift Pope (1974) but had not seen any surviving mowers.
The brochure you have Jack I would date , 1970-1971. I have looked at that brochure many times, thanks for uploading better quality images of that document.( I'm sure you have seen the date on the document before and forgot it was there, it's in the right hand top text.)
Gidday Jack Many thanks for finding that news article 1974.
The news article confirms your point, not many SS Pope mowers were made because Simpson-Pope ceased production of lawnmowers in the mid-1970s ,quite rare.
Many thanks for the gallery records. I think you were the first to record the Jensen and Morwell machines. I had never heard of them.
There is so much we are not likely to know about Swift foundries.
There are some things I don't get. It's more likely Pope acquired the Swift foundry for other manufacturing purposes - not necessarily the manufacture of lawnmowers.
That Pope decal on the Supa-Swift presents as a rushed job. The Pope-SS's must be rare.