Object number
58/71
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Description
This is a hand-powered push lawn mower with two metal rollers and a chain. It is missing the hand grips. It was manufactured in 1870 by Greens, and bears the inscription ‘Green’s Patent 105716 Leeds and London’. The donor found it at his father’s house in Chilmark, Wiltshire. Before being donated to the Museum it was used by a Chilmark ‘Wolf Cub’ for his good turn of the day in July 1957.
Physical description
1 lawnmower: metal
Archival history
Letter, Colin L. Forbes to John Higgs, 5 July 1957 – ‘At father’s home in Wiltshire (Chilmark, 12 miles W. of Salisbury) I recently found on the scrap heap an old lawn mower – “Green’s Patent 105716 Leeds and London” which has a primitive, Victorian, appearance. It cuts only 6 1/2 inches width and seems never to have had a grass box. If this would be of interest to you, I expect father would be glad to see the last of it. The machine lacks the front roller and hand grips which were presumably of wood but is otherwise complete and could be made to work if the rust were removed. // Mr Shortt of Salisbury Museum suggested that I write to you about it.’
Production date
1870 - 1870
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_2835.tif - High resolution image
