• Annual Rally 2018 Countdown

    Our Annual Rally takes place in just over three weeks at Milton Keynes Museum on 19/20 May. This will be our 29th Annual Rally since the very first event at the museum in 1990 which established the Club. We'll be posting updates in the run up to the big event with news about what will be going on over the weekend. This year we have a theme of Greens - either the manufacturer or the type of mower - and we hope there will be a good selection of static and working machines on both days. Club Members can log onto the site to access more detailed information about the event in our special section.

  • Another Working Steam Mower Discovered

    We don't see steam mowers very often so you can imagine we were quite excited when Steve Schlemmer contacted us earlier this year. Steve's clearly a proficient engineer and he told us that he assembled the steam plant from a machined kit of parts from Maxitrak. It's a modified, 1/3rd scale model of a Welsh quarry locomotive. He then fitted the engine to an Atco motor mower that he bought from another Old Lawnmower Club member. This particular model was chosen because it had a Villiers engine mounted on two, sturdy, angle iron cross members. According to Steve these provided an excellent mounting for the boiler and motion which has full Stephenson reversing gear. The boiler’s fed from both a crank pump and a hand pump. The mower also has a whistle to alert bystanders when moving off and turning.