I have often wondered about colours used for the Boundy mowers, yellow, silver and red base plates being seen. I have a green engine which looks to be original paint and I thought it was a bit odd to put a green engine onto a yellow, red or silver base but now after looking through older posts I have found a set of green bars.
Hi
Paul,
provocative thoughts there. Red and green are
complimentary colours
and were 'in the day' used on a number of classic mowers ... certainly
Austral-Villiers rotaries used the scheme in the late 1950s.
I'm not so sure about Boundy ... but will keep an open mind there.
The bars also have the starter rope guide which is the first time that I have seen it apart from adverts.
That is very interesting!
The feature, I believed, was
limited to the Lawn Scout.
By late 1958, the first re-introduced
Lawn Patrols had lanyard start
but
no guide. By very-late 1958 the recoil starter became
standard on
Patrols!
Many thanks for pointing out this feature.
I completely did not notice, or forget about it.
Cheers------------------------
Jack
