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Hello ODK History Lovers
This Operator Manual covers most of the 1969 Range of Victa mowers.
It is a comprehensive 19-page booklet covering the following models:

- Self-Propelled
- Corvette
- Cortina
- Special
- New Utility

The year's slogan was, "Australia's No. 1 Mower"




TO BE CONTINUED ...

PART TWO - The Manual

This manual covers both 125cc and 160cc engines, with the 160cc having been released
the previous season, for the 1967-68 range. Of particular note is the presence of safety
information, reflecting Victa's key role in improving lawnmower safety at this time.

PART THREE – Victa Safety Seal
Special mention should be made about the documents that
accompanied the Operator Manual for the 1969 season.

I have written extensively about how the garden equipment
manufacturers changed their philosophy to lawnmower safety
from about the mid-1960s. This resulted in an industry-agreed
code for lawnmower safety ib the late 1960s.

Turner and Victa were the clear leaders in this change.

Accompanying this Victa manual were two documents: -
First, a double-sided cardboard seal – the Safety Seal – that was a stylised
metaphor for the old wax seal and blue ribbon of older times. Safety
was being taken seriously!



Second, there was a separate ‘Guide to Safer Mowing’ cardboard sheet
[one-sided] that summarised, in 21 points, the guide to mowing safety.

The Victa Safety Seal was mentioned in factory advertising from
late 1968… It is fortunate for history that both these documents survive.

A part of my collection, I am glad they are recorded here...

Compare the 1969 range to the previous year's:-
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/u...-new-victa-mowers-1967-68.html#Post92615



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