I wonder, did the Germans come up with any brand of 2 stroke mower engine? Like the Japanese, our cousins in sausage shop land had a high regard for 2 strokes I believe. You'd think they of all nations would develop their own. I believe Deutschland was one of Victa's export markets. Maybe they saw the mower engines from Australia and thought "even we can't better this" and decided to concentrate their energies on other projects lol.
Germany produced some
very high-tech 2-strokes, even unto a supercharged 2-stroke DKW race bike in the 1930's.
Dunno about push mower engines, but the ILO 2-stroke engine saw use on at least one Oz-assembled 1960's ride-on.
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/27325/Edit: There were substantial tariff barriers to importation of small engines up until the mid 1970's, with the UK as the only favoured source in terms of concessions.
So I'd think it unlikely that any Euro engine imports for push mowers would have been an economically attractive proposition.
They did have the quirky Trabant car, albeit from communist East Germany. They turned out to be quite reliable, albeit rudimentary.
'Rudimentary' is being a bit kind to those cars! It was said that the reason they had a heated rear window, was so that your hands wouldn't freeze as you were pushing it... They now have collectable status, weirdly enough.
Saab also made a few early 1960's car models with 2-stroke engines; there was an immaculately restored 600cc one around Sale, Vic that I saw regularly when I worked there, about 10 years back.
There was actually also an Australian car that used a 2-stroke Villiers twin engine, the Lightburn Zeta....
