Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

It does remind me of the Valor Ironcrete mower from the late 1960’s onwards, called the ‘twelve plus’ or something. I have a photo somewhere, though I recall that my photo shows an orange mower with a Valor decal on the corner of the grassbox. They possibly made a battery version in the 1980/90s which might have been the orange one…?

Valor…[Read more]

Excellent photos, many thanks for posting those.

The Barford with the sawbench is a nice display.

What appears to be the matter? It’ll cost you a pork pie.

And then I have an image sent which is of the same Wheelhorse model in 1960 in France. Apparently sold by a company called Champion.

The ploughing section is at:

Ploughing

Also there’s some paid member downloads at:

Ransomes MG Downloads

That’s an interesting and possibly rare piece of equipment, you really must give it a try!

I’ve found a piece of text from 1953 which explains it:

“The Fairlawn spreader is made by the Fairlawn Company, Fairfield Works, Buxton, Derbyshire, to fit any normal wheelbarrow and enables accurate distribution of small repeated doses of artificial…[Read more]

I think it’s a Flymo DM rotavator with 3hp Briggs engine. Introduced in 1978 and sold for many years.

The earliest reference and advert I have to the Grassmaster is 1951, so it could well have been several years old by 1969.

I’ll add a closeup if I can…

Actually I cheated and searched the website via Google.

To search the site from the Google search bar on the Google homepage type site:vhgmc.co.uk followed by the search wanted

e.g. site:vhgmc.co.uk landmaster 150

The search includes images too and I see there’s some photos of the engine amongst them.

Also an 1960 advert for the L150 – I assume this is the machine in question, but it doesn’t mention the engine.

There’s some information that may help, it’s possibly a JAP 16H.

http://www.vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/landmaster-numbering/

As far as I know the Landmaster trucks were made by Byron Horticultural Engineering Ltd which was originally a manufacturer of greenhouses in the 50’s and 60’s. It was started by Frank Bonser, and somewhere in the muddle are a few Bonser companies including Frank Bonser (Sales) Ltd, Frank Bonser & Co. Ltd and Bonser engineering Ltd – I’m assuming…[Read more]