Trouble is, they behave like a single cylinder anyway. Would have been more practical to have a single cylinder 170cc, but where is the hype in that?
G'day all
I think the twin grabbed everyone's curiosity - a folly ... like the
Victa
Predicta on the 1950's
Automatics.
The twin seems to have been the second option when the
Sarich debacle fell through: -
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=63018The origin of the Twin is surrounded in speculation and myth.
I have written a bit about this here: -
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/u...ad/Board/146/main/10684/type/thread.htmlTrouble is, they behave like a single cylinder anyway. Would have been more practical to have a single cylinder 170cc, but where is the hype in that?
I think that is a great point M-F makes there.
Victa saw themselves as innovators and leaders in lawnmower designs.
The Twin delivered average performance and It was obviously expensive
to manufacture; it suffered from reliability issues in the early days.
Warranty claims probably eroded any profit made on the model.
The Victa
Supreme was the later iteration - and it corrected the technical
issues that plagued the early model 500s.
At a selling level - this was a Ford
Edsel, and the market decided
accordingly. Today, the twins are prized by Victa collectors - not because
of great engineering, but because they symbolise a time when Victa
did dream and do things differently.
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Jackp.s. I have added images of this Twin for the record.
