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PART SEVEN – In Perspective
Ray Tijou clearly ran a successful business
selling and repairing mowers and other garden
and leisure equipment.

He was lucky to secure Victa’s first Victorian dealership.
This was assured money in the bank.

However, Ray was an agent for many mower brands,
and held a Supa-Swift agency from 1959. In later
1950s advertising Tijou would advertise as ‘The
Mower Specialist’ and also, the ‘Mower Doctor’.

He was an early user of interest free terms too.



Of note is a 1961 advertisement where Ray
claimed he had been ‘27 years in the business’.

My best guess is that Ray Tijou started as a
‘hardware man’ who took advantage of the
post-war lawnmower boom.



TO BE CONTINUED …