1858-07-05 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 Pony 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. Illustrated Price Lists forwarded on application.

N.B. A. SHANKS & SON 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.