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Hello ODK members,

There is one sprinkler I would really like - and it wasn't made by a sprinkler company . . . as such.
It's the Ogden Square Spray, made from 1949.

These sprinklers were still being sold two decades later as the Ogden Group's Waterbird,
when Ogden Industries distributed Qualcast (Aust) products.

Unlike Pope (that started as an irrigation manufacturer), Ogden started as a purpose-built
manufacturer of a range of domestic goods. They appear to have made only a couple of sprinklers -
the Square Spray being the first model.

It seemed so odd: how could you get a sprinkler to spray in a square pattern?
The answer was to regulate the hole apertures of a circular pattern and then overlay it with
a revolving fan - simple! But not something I would ever be clever enough to think of . . .

Other manufacturers did offer a square spray - Pope Products did come out with one.
It's likely Ogden got the idea from the USA - but I'm only speculating there.

Here is an advertisement from The Australian Women's Weekly, November 25, 1953.

Ogden appear to have made sprinklers over four decades.

Here is a selection of Square Spray advertising ...