Clive Ironmonger "Dorigny"

Britains Atco and roller…

I may have posted this before.?

Dinky Super Toys “Hand Mower” 🙂

C.

The sun has come out and I should be out exercising, doing the front garden…but then my mind wandered back to the mid 1980s and the mowers that Central Spares distributed….went under names such as Apollo, Gemini, and the chunky alloy deck, orange painted, Jupiter, etc,etc… I’m not suggesting here any connection with above ask, just…[Read more]

In July 1986 Garden Machinery Price Guide, Garda is listed with Vic Konash of Fakenham, Norfolk. Included is a G38E, electric rotary and G38/3.5/4 15″ rotary 3.5hp BVS143 4 stroke. There is also a second range with designation begining PA…
Four Ginge handmowers and a couple of Ginge rotaries are listed with same too…

Looking back to…[Read more]

In July 1986 Garden Machinery Price Guide, Garda is listed with Vic Konash of Fakenham, Norfolk. Included is a G38E, electric rotary and G38/3.5/4 15″ rotary 3.5hp BVS143 4 stroke. There is also a second range with designation begining PA…
Looking back to 1985, I only have few rescued guides, the same distributor is listed a range of machines…[Read more]

Hello,

Seeing the Flymo reminded me, due to the lower handle shape, of a year when USA spec Flymos were sold in UK. Maybe 1981/82.? Not sure now why it was, maybe in a time of the company UK restructuring.?? The ones I recall had a different kind of plastic governor vane and a control knob on top of the cowl/tank.? So were quite different…[Read more]

Have a Google for BarOmix power barrow…the photos I found look similar.? less the back skip extension.?

C.

That’s where our old Honda F400 used to win with its positive gearbox reverse to back out from having worked forward up to a wall of the walled garden.
Reverse half speed makes sense, did MT use this system.? I have seen an old “back out” system of theirs on this chassis type that used a second large drive pulley drilled, bolted and spaced to…[Read more]

I have realised that I should have written, first left click on thumbnail photo to open in forum viewer and then right click and open image in new tab to get enhanced view.

C.

I have newly discovered that a right click on the photo and then use open link in new tab opens up the image better which can then be enlarged further.

It is largely a Merry Tiller that has had a green repaint and lost its belt cover, drive box input pulley, engine pulley and the vital belt guide. It has an improvised transport wheel set from…[Read more]

I have newly discovered that a right click on the photo and then use open link in new tab opens up the image better which can then be enlarged further.

It is largely a Merry Tiller that has had a green repaint and lost drive box input pulley, engine pulley and the vital belt guide. It has an improvised transport wheel set from a n other tiller…[Read more]

I have newly discovered that a right click on the photo and then use open link in new tab opens up the image better which can then be enlarged further.
https://staging.vhgmc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200218_125527.jpg

It is largely a Merry Tiller that has had a green repaint and lost drive box input pulley, engine pulley and the vital…[Read more]

Yes, I would always associate the name with Wimborne..
In the old price guides by 1988 JT Lowe, Wimborne, had one Norlett cultivator in their entry. Previous year a listing was for 2 cultivators, 2 “handmowers” and a cement mixer and the (division of Flymo sales ltd) was no longer part of their title.
During 1986 though it shows a full list of…[Read more]

Amazing what you end up finding on a wild windy day with time to sit at the keyboard..
http://liberallawnmowers.com.pk/products/lawn-mowers/manual-lawn-mowers/ I’m off at a bit of a tangent here but there is a Ginge link to one of the side wheel push types.

C.

As it’s very much not a day for digging the garden, as I was doing yesterday, I’ve had a rummage and found some of the machinery directories from a former career..

Entry update 4/86 shows Ginge with Gardenflex Ltd at a Milton Keynes address, listing 2 handmowers, 2 rotary mowers and a petrol cylinder mower but no riders.

Update of 2/87 shows…[Read more]

Resting in the shed I have a Ginge 4 wheel steel deck push rotary which looks early/mid 70s. The steel deck is tired but the Tecumseh derived engine was a very long lived runner, gifted to me by a neighbour when he upgraded to a Honda HR17 a few years ago. It was in turn a replacement for his pre recoil starter Suffolk Colt which also lurks in the…[Read more]

Have at look on this link; https://www.jacobsen.com/europe-manuals/ and go to the models out of production box to see if you can track it down.
I’m thinking it’s Multimower 76 ? rather than Vergecutter 76 that you will need to peruse.

For a few months, one summer 1983?, I walked behind a brand new, it was a Y reg, Vergecutter 76 but then moved…[Read more]

Have at look on this link; https://www.jacobsen.com/europe-manuals/ and go to the models out of production box to see if you can track it down.
I’m thinking it’s Multimower 76 ? rather than Vergecutter 76 that you will need to peruse.

For a few months, one summer 1983?, I walked behind a brand new, it was a Y reg, Vergecutter 76 but then moved…[Read more]

It’s set me thinking. I wonder if this Valor mower design was a UK one or if it was sourced in.?

I am always fascinated to learn the stories behind these sometimes short production runs of machines

No links to this mower type but I remember going to GLEE exhibition in maybe the late 1980s and there was a range of cast alloy sided cylinder…[Read more]

Thank you for finding and pasting the photo. Obviously my memory was playing tricks on the colour 😉 ..at least the handles are a cream/buff 🙂

Thank you,
Clive.