Hello ODK members,

I am compelled to write about the Haxby lawnmower because no one else has.
This won't be a long article - because there is very little information on this machine.

I know the Haxby was made at 53 Wright Street, Sunshine, Victoria, and that the manufacturer
was Haxby Brothers, a company formed in about 1946.

I do not know what their main line of manufacture was. I do know that they made a 14 inch mower
that was powered by a 98c.c. Villiers engine. It was not a cheap machine, selling for the price
of imported Ransomes and Atco machines in 1954 [from the only illustrated advertisement I have].
I know they were cheaper if bought direct from the factory.

That's all I know.
The 1954 newsprint illustration here (an edited full-page ad. from the Melbourne Department
Store McEwans gives very little detail about this intriguing machine.

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