PART THREE – Specification
The definitive research I have found comes from the brilliant
Seventy Years of Garden Machinery by Brian Bell [2007].

This book presents as the source of often quoted but unacknowledged
comments made about the Mayfield Merlin. Here’s the Bell extract: -

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Note the reference to an alloy blade holder! Probably not a good idea.
Otherwise, this would have been a solid job … but with extremely dated styling.
I feel styling was the Achilles Heel here.

I found, in my collection, that I have an advertisement for a Merlin from
Country Life Annual from 1967. I think this is proof that Allen advertised in
AUS and NZ, but I have no evidence that any Merlins sold outside England.

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TO BE CONTINUED ...