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SECTION G – Starters
Recoil Starters during this period are not controversial,
but reflect a reality: that consumers were demanding
easier starting systems.

Victa’s own recoil starter was an expensive, necessarily heavy
duty, and necessary response to a 2-stroke engine design that
lacked a decompressor. Victa would sort this – but years’ later.

It is no surprise that Victa used mostly North American designed
‘wind-up’ starters in their impulse and trip-release variants on
their lawnmowers in the 1960s.