Forgot to mention, I have replaced the wheels on this beater with much better ones. The ones it came with had outer edges "stripped to the bone", giving them a white walled look and making this machine extra shabby. I actually didn't mind them tbh. They still worked fine, bald tread and all, but these wheels became available when I put even better ones in my '82' electronic ignition side pull Mustang.
All I can say is these mowers deserved their design award. They have a beautiful shape to them and leave today's mowers for dead in the styling stakes.
They look like something from 2001 A Space Odyssey but sound like a Victa from the time the film was made lol.
