PART SIX – Publicity Stunt You Couldn’t Buy
Ray Tijou utilised extensive classified advertising
for the rest of the 1950s.

The advertising highlight must be a publicity stunt
for the Victa Model 2 for the 1956-57 season.

These were the days when Victa made ridiculous
claims about their domestic rotary mowers – that they
could cut any jungle growth and the like puffery.

Victa must have been over the moon when father
Harry and son Ray orchestrated a stunt
[with media invited] that capitalised on Victa’s
claims. In late 1956 the Tijous cut down a large
tree with a standard Victa in 7 minutes!

There is now clear evidence that the Tijous later
repeated this stunt with a Model 3 Victa. This image
courtesy of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.

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That 2014 story was told here: -
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/u...ead/Board/147/main/8975/type/thread.html

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