Hello
ODK members,
I am compelled to write about the
Haxby lawnmower because no one else has.
This won't be a long article - because there is very little information on this machine.
I know the Haxby was made at
53 Wright Street, Sunshine, Victoria, and that the manufacturer
was
Haxby Brothers, a company formed in about
1946.
I do not know what their main line of manufacture was. I do know that they made a
14 inch mower that was powered by a
98c.c. Villiers engine. It was not a cheap machine, selling for the price
of imported
Ransomes and
Atco machines in 1954 [from the only illustrated advertisement I have].
I know they were cheaper if bought direct from the factory.
That's all I know.
The
1954 newsprint illustration here (an edited full-page ad. from the Melbourne Department
Store
McEwans gives very little detail about this intriguing machine.