1860-06-16 Gardeners Chronicle - Shanks Advertisement
SHANKS' NEW PATENT LAWN MOWING, ROLLING, COLLLECTING, AND DELIVERING MACHINE FOR 1860
MOWS THE GRASS WET OR DRY, ON LAWNS UNEVEN OR OTHERWISE,
IN A MUCH NEATER MANNER THAN THE SCYTHE, AT HALF THE EXPENSE.
NEW PATENT PONY MACHINE FOR 1860.
ONE of the most valuable of the Patent Improvements Messrs. Shanks have effected in their Machine is in the method of emptying the Grass-box. The want of a speedy and efficient method for this purpose has been much felt for many years past. In the Spring, more especially, when the Grass springs up rapidly, nothing is more annoying in working a Mowing Machine than the stopping, and almost constant travel from the handles to the box, and vice versa, for the purpose of emptying the Grass. A great deal of time is thus lost, independent of the hard work the man, not only in walking some hundreds of times the length of the Machine in a day, but more especially in that stooping posture which he has so often to endure. Many a Gardener can testify to this. This great want in all Mowing Machines, whether past or present, is completely obviated in Shanks New Patent Mowing, Rolling, Collecting and Delivering Machine for 1860. The improvement consists in the introduction of a simple and efficient apparatus for emptying the box without the man being under the necessity of either leaving the handles or stopping the Machine.. So effective and complete is this valuable improvement, that the box, if it were possible to fill it, could be emptied at the rate of 60 times a minute, without any undue strain being put on the apparatus. The immense advantages of this invention must be at once apparent to the practical Gardener. It will enable the Machine to do at least a third more work, while the labour and annoyance in working it, as compared with ordinary Machines, is three-fourths lessened. If a Lawn, which formerly took a Machine nine hours to mow can now be done in six hours, with three-fourths less labour to the man who works the Machine, nothing farther is necessary to establish the utility and worth of the invention.
PRICES.
SHANKS NEW PATENT HORSE MACHINE.
Including Box of Tools for Sharpening, &c., and Directions.
| Width of Cutter. | Width of Cutter. | |||||
| No. 1-48-inch Machine. | £28-0-0 | Drawn by a Horse | No. 3-36-inch Machine | £22-0-0 | Drawn by a Horse | |
| No. 2-42-inch Machine | £26-0-0 | No. 4-30-inch Machine | £19-0-0 | Drawn by a Horse or a strong Pony |
SHANKS PATENT PONY AND DONKEY MACHINES.
Including Box of Tools for Sharpening, &c., and Directions.
| No. 5-20-inch Machine. | £15-15-0 0 | Drawn by a Pony | No. 6-28-inch Machine | £14-10-0 | Drawn by a Pony | No. 7-25-inch Machine | £12-10-0 | Drawn by a Donkey |
SHANKS' NEW PATENT HAND MACHINES, FOR PUSHING OR DRAWING SEPARATELY OR TOGETHER.
Including Box of Tools for Sharpening, &c., and Directions.
| No. 8-24-inch Machine. | £8-17-6 | Easily worked by Two Men | No. 10-19-inch Machine | £7-12-6 | Easily worked by a Man and Boy |
| No. 9-22-inch Machine | £8-7-6 | No. 11-16-inch Machine | £6-17-6 | Easily worked by a Man | |
| No. 12-13-inch Machine | £6-2-6 | Easily worked by a Boy |
The Patent Delivering Apparatus if attached to the Hand Machines, and they are strongly recommended to be so, 20s. extra.
SHANKS PATENT HAND MACHINE, FOR DRAWING ONLY.
Including Box of Tools for Sharpening, &c., and Directions,
| No. 13-22-inch Machine. | £7-5-0 | Easily worked by a Man and Boy | No. 14-19-inch Machine | £6-15-0 | Easily worked by a Man and Boy | |
| No. 15-16-inch Machine | £6-5-0 | Easily worked by a Man |
The Machines are warranted to give ample satisfaction, and if not approved of they may be at once returned.
The Prices include delivery at most of the Railway Stations throughout the Kingdom.
TESTIMONIALS:-
From Mr. George Eyles, late Chief Superintendent of the Grounds and entire Horticultural Department of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, and now appointed to the Superintendence of the Horticultural Society's New Gardens, Kensington Gore, and the Gardens, Chiswick, in favour of SHANKS Patent Lawn Mower - (the 30-inch Horse-power Machine used on the Lawns of the Crystal Palace)
"Crystal Palace, December 20, 1859.
"I have much pleasure in bearing testimony to the excellence of the 30-inch Shanks' Patent Lawn Mowing Machine you sent us. We have had it in use almost daily up to the end of the mowing season, and it has always performed its work in the most satisfactory manner, and has never been once out of repair. The contrivance for emptying the Grass Box is a great acquisition, and effects a considerable saving of time."
From the Hon. M. F. T. BERKELEY, Berkeley Castle, January 21, 1860.
"I have found your Mowing Machine answer perfectly. It does its work well, cutting closer and more evenly than the scythe collects and delivers the Grass, thereby saving much time and labour."
From Mr. J. RICHARDSON, Gardener to JOSEPH PEASE, ESQ., Southend Gardens, near Darlington, January 21, 1800.
"Your Lawn Mowing Machine is the best of any I have yet used, doing the work speedily and well. The Delivering Apparatus is a decided improvement, and the best recommendation it can have is its own simplicity."
From Mr. J. KIDD, Gardener to the Right Hon. The EARL OF AIRLIE, Cortachy Castle Gardens, January 20, 1860.
After having had one season's trial of your new and improved Mowing and Rolling Machine, I feel highly satisfied with the manner it does the work in every way. Your last improvement, viz., the apparatus for emptying the Grass-Box, I consider a very great saving, both of time and labour, as the Machine does not require to be stopped to have the Grass Box emptied. Before I got this Machine nearly half the time was taken up in having so often to stop to have the Grass-Box emptied. There la another improvement which was not on my last Machine, viz., the tempering of the cutters either to cut long or short Grass; it is now so simple that any of my men can alter it in five minutes. In short, I would be sorry to be obliged to use your old Machines (although good) where it was possible to have your last improved one.
From Mr. J. More, Gardener to the Right Hon. LORD LOVAT, Beaufort Castle, Deanly, January 23, 1860.
"I am happy to have it in my power to add my testimony to the utility of your improved Grass-Cutting Machines. The Delivering Apparatus works admirably and is a great saving of time. I think no one having a Lawn to keep should be without a Mowing Machine with your improvements."
SOLE AGENTS FOR LONDON
J. B. BROWN & CO., 18, CANNON STREET, CITY, LONDON, E.C.