Bolens - Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

Bolens & Machines on TV

November 7, 2019June 8, 2019 by Alan

‘The sun always shines on TV’ goes the 1985 song by A-ha, and to a certain degree it does although it might not be the sun that brightens your day but the appearance of some vintage horticultural machinery which you’d… Continue Reading

Nobby Fletcher and Bolens

November 7, 2019December 12, 2017 by Alan

Nobby Fletcher is a fictitious character who appeared in a Bolens advert in 1970, reproduced below, promoting the assets of owning a Bolens garden tractor. Nobby Fletcher appears to be somewhat of a dogsbody working five and a half days… Continue Reading

UK’s Oldest Bolens Tractor (and Australia too)

November 7, 2019May 17, 2017 by Alan

This isn’t a trick question but does anyone want to guess when Bolens introduced their two-wheeled garden tractors to the UK? We are all used to seeing the Bolens four-wheeled garden tractors, as in the image on the right, with… Continue Reading

David Brown & Bolens

November 7, 2019January 31, 2017 by Alan

Collecting and preserving a machine is often much more than just having the physical machine itself, although one machine is never enough and the collecting bug bites hard. Also accumulating brochures, leaflets and memorabilia about a certain manufacturer can add… Continue Reading