Originally Posted by CyberJack
I do want to say this about the ambivalence of the MTD manual front
cover - boy or girl? My guess: girl.
I'm with you on this one. Evidence: look at the shirt, and the way it buttons. Right over left is the convention for female attire buttons...

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'Lawn Flite' is not an aggressive, 'masculine' name, and both AUS
and USA advertising of the time reflected this. From the earliest
days, men, women, and children, were used in lawnmower advertising.
Didn't Victa make something of a selling point early on, of their mowers' lightness, and ability to be used [though maybe not started] by women, and even kids? That was never very possible with the old reel hand mowers.


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