It looks just as beautiful as your Masport Iron Horse, Pete. Are the engines the same?
Are you sure it is 1955? It is a great looking design for such an early rotary - Victas of that era looked like converted washing machines. I'd have placed yours in the 1970s.
Hi Grumpy, thanks for those kind words.
The old bloke i bought it of repaired mowers for 15-20 years he knew these motors inside out and he still has the old parts manuals and workshop manuals.
Yes it definitely dates around the mid to late 1950's as this is the C12 Iron Horse engine.
First Iron Horse engine was the A series then the C then D in the sixties and seventies then F until 1990 then V, E and M series
These were built in Canada by RPM and then Evinrude/Johnson as a sideline for outboard motors and then Outboard Marine also Canada which was then sold to Toro.
Note on the body the height adjusters are all individual you had to adjust the height with a spanner doing one wheel at a time, the body is solid steel not alloy or thin steel they use these days.
This engine is very close to the first one i did, but definitely several differences being an earlier model
