Can you even partly imagine a manufacturer building a base with that much alloy in it these days, you would be locked up if you proposed something like that now
G'day
Max, Paul and NormHi
Norm - I understand why this was named 'Hercules'
The mower is built like a truck, very heavy duty.
, that's funny ... and I will add that the Hercules appears to
have had a front bumper...
The only image I have seen of this comes from the
Vintage Mowers website. [see below] My best guess the bumper was purely aesthetic -
continuing the
automotive theme of fenders and pumpers.
Any ideas?
Cyril and Harold had a lot of patents in the toilet industry (flushing-cistern for lavatories)
and I saw one other mower patent.
, I've got to digest the info you have supplied.
Toilet jokes aside, the wheel scrapers is certainly
new information for the record.
A-V do appear to have been the first to use wheel scrapers on AUS mowers!
Cheers
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Jack
