G'day
Lennyb and Mod
GadgeYes, if something can be found, Gadge will find it.
Thanks for helping our record on these store brands.
It was news to me that Godfreys sold mowers at all.
A note on the Wertheim and why 'deluxe' appears.
This chassis was Victa's top chassis for the 1960s,
appearing on their Corvette.
When Victa dropped 'Corvette' from their Victa range in 1973,
this enabled the chassis to continue to live on as both a
stencil (Corvette, Premier,) and as a store brand.
The deluxe placed it above the Mayfair chassis - in that
your machine had better styling, better wheels, bigger catcher
and chrome highlights. Both the Mayfair and this chassis were
medium-arch machines - meaning that they could be sold at a
cheaper price than the high-arch machines of the 1970s.
Victa now had a two-tier store brand offering: Mayfair (standard);
Corvette (deluxe offering). By the end of the 1970s, Victa would have a
high-arch chassis available for store brand mowers.
Your machine is in excellent condition and well worth preserving.
It even has a rare green fuel gauge matching the green decal.
I see that Godfreys still flogs Wertheim vacuum cleaners to suckers
I believe Wertheim is a Godfrey's creation - a store brand.
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