https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=cfrm Recent Posts en-us Sun, 17 May 2026 15:25:19 UTC 5 support@outdoorking-forum.com.au (OutdoorKing Repair Forum) UBB.threads https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/images/general/default/rss_icon.gif https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=cfrm https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/113637.html#Post113637

The British Webb company made a toy lawn mower: -
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/75987/re-webb-miniature-mower-c1957.html

I own a very miniature lawnmower: -
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/51827/THE_smallest_REEL_MOWER_IN_THE.html

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A History Record for the Tijou company can be found here: -

https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/113124/ray-tijou-dealer-c1955.html

The Vicmobile Pump was sold by Ray Tijou: -

https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=60740



A topic has been started here: -
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/113210/melbourne-victa-dealer-c1955.html

]]> Sun, 07 Nov 2021 01:53:40 +0000 CyberJack https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/113207.html#Post113207 https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/112169.html#Post112169 PART TWO – Heritage
The earliest reference to these bicycle lawnmowers seems
to date to about 1895 when one was exhibited at the New York
State Fair. That story was syndicated and appeared in various
Australian newspapers.

This was never presented as an 'invention' but as a 'novelty'.
Some folks, in these modern times, seem to have forgotten that.



In the gallery below I include a bicycle-sickle bar mower reported in 1903.
So, these things are not so novel anymore.

]]> Mon, 24 May 2021 07:43:38 +0000 CyberJack https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/112169.html#Post112169 https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/104439.html#Post104439 PART TWO - The 2020 Jay Leno video
Jay Leno’s video of March, 2020, is the first real video insight into the
B&S Hybrid. Remember this is forty-year-old technology.

Amazing for its day…

Briggs & Stratton saw in the late 1970s that fossil fuels would be
challenged in the future. That’s insightful, but not surprising. Briggs
has been around long enough to have reinvented itself on many
occasions in its long history. Electric technology was there from the
earliest days of B&S.

Enjoy the video!

]]> Tue, 17 Mar 2020 08:53:53 +0000 CyberJack https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/104439.html#Post104439 https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/99443.html#Post99443 ODK history lovers
I am an animal lover and I do not particularly love this story; but I record
it as a matter of interest. At least, it had a happy ending…

I came across it by chance, when researching a Melbourne company –
Finlay Brothers – who were important importers, makers, and sellers
of all sorts of machinery – push bikes, motor bikes, motor cars, and
garden machinery, including motor mowers.

Finlay Bros operated for more than half-a-century, from about 1900
to the 1960s of the 20th Century. Amazing!

This is a most amazing story told here, a six-week journey from New York
to Melbourne, and it occurred over a century ago!




]]> Sun, 23 Jun 2019 11:19:17 +0000 CyberJack https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/99443.html#Post99443 https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/99166.html#Post99166

CURIOS & STORIES



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]]> Fri, 07 Jun 2019 12:59:13 +0000 CyberJack https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/99166.html#Post99166 https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/90347.html#Post90347 Lawn Mower Barrow Attachment was invented by Herbert Malcolm Mcneill, from Whanganui, New Zealand.
A patent was filed on the 5th March 1919, NZ patent number 41389 granted and published on the 4th September 1919.
A USA patent was filed on the 23rd Sept 1919 and patent number US1338144A granted on the 27th April 1920.

Again, do we know how successful they were and do any examples still exist ?

cheers
Alan


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Scott Bonnar's use of Douglas engines:-
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=64619
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=64474

Mitchell Automow:-
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/77739/MITCHELL_-_Powermower_-_c1920s.html



Saddleworth & District Historical Society Museum:-
http://community.history.sa.gov.au/saddleworth-district-historical-society-museum

Geoff Nowak Flikr Photostream:-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/94854784@N06/

Old Lawnmower Club:-
http://www.oldlawnmowerclub.co.uk/mowers/moms/mp080-godiva-motor-mower
http://www.oldlawnmowerclub.co.uk/mowers/moms/mp023-barford-perkins-godiva


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]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:15:39 +0000 CyberJack https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/79811.html#Post79811 https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/77705.html#Post77705
Here is a copy of the original typed document(signed) sent to Bruce by Brian Doyle.





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http://www.roughandtumble.org/


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