Hello ODK history lovers

This lawnmower is important to vintage lawnmower history because of its potential date of manufacture.
The problem is that I can find precious little about the Rota-Cut 18� Power Mower.

The problem with the name �Rota-cut� is that in some advertising records the name changes to �Rotacut� from 1956.
Second, the Rota-Cut I am looking for should not be confused with the Champion Rotacut or the Tecnico Rotocut
from the 1950s.

The first model (below) was fitted with a Villiers engine. It appears to have a small roller at the back
in the style of our first rotary mower, the electric Tecnico of 1948. The fuel tank is handle-mounted.
This record does not identify width of cut.

Of particular note is the date and location of the record.
It�s the Melbourne Argus, and the date is early 1953, yet the ad. does not say this is a �new� machine
or �just introduced�. Could this machine pre-date the Victa as our first petrol rotary?

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