PART FOUR � AUS Advertising
The records I have suggest that the Loyd Motor Sickle sold in the Eastern
States of Australia. The opposition came from the popular, imported sickle-
bar mowers � Allen, Atco, Barford, Lloyd, Mayfield, and the like. The new
rotary-action mowers � Loyd and Hayter � were in their ascendancy. By the
mid-1950s, the sickle-bar mower reign would be all but over.

At about 90 quid, the Loyd was double the price of a 1950�s residential rotary
lawnmower; but less than half the price of a walk behind sickle bar mower.
I think it would have sold quite well. Here are two typical advertisements:-

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SAW ATTACHMENT
Reference was made to a 14" circular saw blade.
Probably a popular attachment for orchardists.

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SOURCE: Seventy Years of Garden Machinery by Brian Bell

TO BE CONTINUED ...

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