1856-04-12 Gardeners Chronicle - Shanks Advertisement
VALUABLE IMPROVEMENTS IN MOWING MACHINES.
BY ROYAL
LETTERS PATENT.
Under the Patronage of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and His Majesty the Emperor of the French.
ALEXANDER SHANKS AND SON,
ARBROATH,
FORFARSHIRE.-PATENTEES.
A. SHANKS AND SON, while soliciting the attention of the Nobility, Gentry, and Gardeners to their Horse and Poney MOWING and ROLLING MACHINES, the completeness and superiority of which are now well known, at the same time respectfully solicit notice to their new HAND MACHINE, specially adapted for mowing small lawns, verges, around flower beds, &c., and which has now undergone a trial amply sufficient to enable the Patentees with all confidence to offer it as the cheapest as well as the most efficient and complete machine extant. The improvements effected by the Patentees enable the machine to be worked with perfect ease by one person. It requires no change of wheels or rollers in mowing verges; will cut close to the edge of flower-beds; has great facilities for quick turning, cutting and rolling at the same time; the length of the cut can be effectually regulated in a few seconds by merely turning a screw, and being simple as well as complete in its construction the machine can be easily worked and managed by a common labourer. The machines are fitted with due regard to strength and durability, and consequently not at all liable to get out of order. The work is executed with great rapidity, and in a manner vastly superior to mowing with the scythe, while the simultaneous operations of rolling and close cutting greatly improve and beautify the turf. The Rolling and Mowing Machine is now in common use at all the Royal Gardens, Windsor, Kew, Buckingham Palace, and Osborne. A. SHANKS & SON have much pleasure in submitting the following from the numerous unsolicited testimonials received by them in favour of their New Hand Machine: -
| From Mary Wedlake & Co., London. "Gentlemen, We must inform you that your Hand Machines give extreme satisfaction; indeed, they are preferred to all others." |
From Thos. Mitchell James, Esq., of Phantassie, Haddingtonshire. "Mr. Thomas Mitchell James has received the Grass Cutting Machine from Messrs. Shanks & Son. It has given great satisfaction." |
| From R. K. Goode, Esq., of Heather Hall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. "Gentlemen, The Machine does its work far better than can be done with the scythe, and at half the expense." | From D. Forbes Mitchell, Esq., of Thamiston, Aberdeenshire. "Mr. Forbes Mitchell's compliments, &c. As far as he has been able to judge of the Mowing Machine, it answers perfectly, better than expected, and is likely to become a necessary implement wherever known." |
| From James James, Esq., of Samiston, near Jedburgh. "Gentlemen, I am happy to say that I am much pleased and satisfied with the manner in which the Machine does its work. It is, I find, a very great saving of labour, and far sur- passes the scythe in the manner that it leaves the Grass after mowing." |
From the National Garden Almanack for 1856. "Twelve months' experience enables us to indorse all the Patentees set forth as to the capabilities of their improved Machine. Our Gardener delights in its use." |
Illustrated Price Lists forwarded on application.
N.B. A. SHANKS & Sox finding that their Patented Improvements are pirated, beg to caution the public against purchasing Machines with their improvements without their name and address marked on the Machines.
A. SHANKS & Son also supply Fleming's SALTING MACHINES, for destroying Weeds, &c., on Gravel Walks, Court Yards, &c., particulars and prices of which will be learned on application.
AGENTS:-
| Messrs. | J. & C. Lee, Hammersmith. | Messrs. | Danks & Nixon, Nottingham. |
| Mary Wedlake & Co., | 118, Fenchurch Street, City. | " | Mapplebeck & Lowe, Birmingham. |
| Messrs. | William Dray & Co., Swan Lane, London. | " | Wm. Drummond & Sons, Stirling; and 58, Dawson Street, Dublin. |
| " | William E. Rendle & Co., Plymouth. | " | Brown & Austin, Argyll Arcade, Glasgow. |
| " | F. & A. Dickson & Sons, 106, Eastgate Street, Chester; and 14, Corporation Street, Manchester. | " | James Dickson & Sons, 32, South Hanover Street, Edinburgh. |
| Mr. | G. Folkard, Hertford. | " | Dickson & Turnbull, Perth. |
| " | T. Johnson, Leicester. |