Hello ODK History Lovers

Sidney Hubert Bowditch was the respected tradesman, then Factory Manager and lawnmower designer
at Scott Bonnar for about 4 decades. He would have seen the Company grow from a fledgling lawnmower
manufacturer, through the lean years of the Great Depression, the War Years, and then the rise to
popular success, with the mass-produced residential machines of the modern era.

This post is one for the Record. We don�t know a lot about the man at all. What we can glean, from
the surviving records, is that he played a key � and pioneering - role in the history of the great
Australian company, Scott Bonnar.

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The records I�ve found are largely personal � Notices for Births, Deaths, and Marriages.
The earliest record I have dates from 1906, with results for rifle shooting at the Murray Bridge
Rifle Club. Young Sid was a good shot.

I found an important academic result for Fitting & Turning (II) from 1913.
Sid received a First Class rating:-

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Sid married Doris Beatrice Carter in 1923. They had two children: a son, Douglas, in 1924;
and a daughter, Phylis, in 1926. The couple celebrated their Silver Wedding Anniversary in 1948:-

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Tragically, Sid�s wife passed away at the young age of 57 in 1954. I lose the record trail here
because of a paucity of digitisation of records after this date year.

The most revealing records have come from Sid Bowditch�s War Record and Malcolm Bonnar�s
brief references concerning Sid in his 1971 Memoirs.

TO BE CONTINUED �

Last edited by CyberJack; 10/06/15 11:46 PM. Reason: Updated information.