Hello BriggsHandy

Thank you!!! These are very helpful indeed.
This is a mower reluctant to give up its secrets.

It is rare and it is Australian made.
It has a mix of unusual features:
- the deep-pressed steel base suggests early 1960s (not fifties).
- the wheels are not semi-pneumatic (suggesting 1950s).
- the fuel tank is similar to, if not identical to Victa Rotomo ones.
This does not, however, necessarily link Victa to this. It's a copy, or
was sourced from the same supplier to Victa.
- the cowling over the Hurricane engine is unusual, but similar to the
British Bux engine and the Ogden version of the British Trojan Major.
I do not believe the cowling was necessarily made by Hurricane.

Because of copyright impediments, many news and magazine records are not
available after 1954. I have no doubt that this machine would reveal itself
if that were not the case. I am hoping some vital clue will come forward as
piecemeal urban and regional records (not subject to copyright) are made
available. It's a waiting game.

Having said this is a rare mower, I do not mean valuable.
The problem is ... this little mower has no story to go with it ... yet.
Thanks to your photos we, at least, have a better record.

I have to ask this:
- First, Is it possible to get a photo of the upper handle. That is important.
- Second, a photo of the handle brackets (where they meet the base).
[It is not clear that the handle is foldable. It appears that it has to
be un-bolted and removed.

I am confident that we will solve this - at some point...
It's just bad luck that the decal could not reveal just a couple of letters mad

Thanks for assisting in giving this little mower an identity.
It sure is an interesting one, whatever it may be.

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JACK