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PART FIVE - Sheerline Model 6
So, what about the other Sheerline - the Model 6?
When did it make an appearance?

This more conservative cowling and top-mounted fuel tank appears to have entered
Victa production - for Victas - in late 1961, for the 1962 Victa range. The beautiful,
streamlined, Model 9 cowling would now be used on the Victa Standard, the last
remnant of Victa 1950's naming conventions.


SOURCE: Victa News Cuttings, June, 1961

Note that this is Victa's first naming of 'Utility' - a name that would be used
extensively across the lawnmower industry for years to come. I guess it was a
derivative automotive name.

It is also timely that I should mention the significance of the name 'Sheerline' here.
The Sheerline was the first of nautical and diplomatic naming conventions that
Victa would use in the following years of the 1960s [Ambassador, Cadet, Consul,
Corvette, Envoy, and Viceroy.] Brilliant!

It is unclear why Victa regressed in cosmetic design from the Model 9 to the Model 6;
but there is a design similarity between the squarish Four Star and Sheerline cowlings
for the 1962 range.

Also note the silliness of Victa offering the Standard and Utility mowers.
Victa would sort that nonsense the following season.