Hello Steve

That's a bit of detective work there!
It shows the degree to which garden machinery has become the province
of mega-factories that sell their products to 'manufacturers' who
then claim the make as being of their own manufacture.

The interesting thing about that link is:

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The address is certainly not a factory.
And 11-50 employees didn't make all those products.
I guess Crown Well is the sales, distribution & export company.

The fact that they make their products for various 'customers' in
"Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand" shows how complex it is to
identify what actual brand your machine was sold as. The brand name
is 'custom made' to suit the customer. A different bonnet, change
of colour, and other cosmetic changes, and X company has a new mower.

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I guess my question is: how do you get spare parts without knowing
the actual 'customer' it was sold to? It could be any number of 'makes'.

All very confusing for the poor consumer. frown

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Jack