1842-06-11 Gardeners Chronicle

BUDDING'S PATENT MOWING MACHINE, manufactured by J. FERRABEE, Phoenix Foundry, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, and sold wholesale by arrest,. J. R. and A. RANSOMS, Ipswich, 011 the same terms as at the Manufactory. — In the Gardeners' Chronicle of of the 14th May last, W. F. Lindsay Carnegie, Esq., of Kimblethmont, near Arbroath, gives an account of a new Mowing Machine made for him by Mr. Shanks, of Arbroath; to be drawn by a horse, and which cuts a breadth of 42 inches. After stating that the invention is still the subject of a patent in England in favour of Mr. Budding, Mr. Carnegie says, "The inapplicability of whose machine to large spaces had long been a subject of regret to me." Fearing last any one may think, from this statement, that extensive lawns cannot be mown by a smaller machine, I beg to state that any extent may be cut equally well with a small as with a large machine; the only difference being the times it takes in doing it.

Having made arrangements with the Patentee for the manufacture of all the machines during the term of the patent, I continue to supply them to cut respectively breadths of 16in., 19in., and 22in., to be worked by hand, and from 26in. and upwards, to be drawn by a horse. Mr. Carnegie having taken pains and incurred considerable expense in bringing to perfection machine to cut so large a breadth as 42 in., I have, at his request and by authority of the Patentee, agreed to license Mr. Alexr. Shanks, of Arbroath, to sell the large Horse Machines in England; and to any Nobleman or Gentleman having an extensive lawn and wishing to have one of them, I shall be most happy to give every information in my power. 

Stroud. June 9, 1842.

JOHN FERRABEE