Hi Admin CJ,
Honestly we could speculate all we like but none of us will truly know what this mower was at birth when it left the Holland Street Factory except for the person that messed around with it in the first instance.
This could infact be a mower made up from 5 different machines and as such we will never know. Handle Bars can be changed, ID plates can be changed and once this is done we'll never know it's true identity.
What we do know is that the chassis has been fully repainted and probably has had all previous colours fully removed by blasting and with that the ID plate has also been removed and at that time may have been substituted with a plate that had a much better red appearance to it opposed to the original ugly faded looking unit. The replacement plate could've been sourced from a badly fatigue cracked Standard 45 chassis that was scrapped. BTW non original rivets are used on this ID plate reattachment.
Then the Handle Bars could be original or then they could've come from a failed Lawn King..........do we get the picture here ?
So what I'm saying is only the person that did the refurbishment will truly ever know what's been done here as this machine along with many many other Model 45's out there in the field are of a Heinz breed variety.
Cheers,
BB.
