Hi Patrick
That's a great question.
I can only offer my thoughts on this.
If it's a Victa Electric base I wonder if the Victa Electric went the way of the Automatic
I think not. The
Automatic was just a poor design. The decision
to put an electric motor on a utility base in the 1980s was, in my view,
totally mis-conceived. The future of electric mowers lay in residential
mowers (rear-catcher), rather than utility mowers.
The proof is in the pudding. The electric utility lasted for just a season or so.
The rear-catcher mowers live on to this day.
This utility base was designed for a Victa 2-stroke.
The engine spacers were a cheap way to adapt to the standard c/shaft
4-stroke engines on offer.
All very electric.-------------------------
Jack
