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Collection, Preservation and Display of Old Lawn Mowers

1856-04-15 Cottage Gardener - James Ferrabee Advertisement

THE COTTAGE GARDENER-ADVERTISEMENTS.

IMPROVED LAWN MOWING MACHINES.

BUDDING'S PATENT, with FERRABEE'S REGISTERED IMPROVEMENTS.

Manufactured and Sold by JAMES FERRABEE and Co., Phoenix Iron Works, near Stroud, Gloucestershire.

These Machines can be used by unskilled labourers with equal facility on Lawns, Verges, between Flower - beds, on Bowling Greens, Cricket, and Pleasure Grounds. They will cut clean and level, however uneven the ground. 5000 of them have been sold.

Price List, including carriage to any Railway Station south of York.
      £ s. d.
Hand Machine, for One Man,  cutting 16 inches wide   5 10 0
Hand Machine, for One Man and Boy,  cutting 22 inches wide   6 0 0
Pony Machine (or Donkey),  cutting 26 inches wide   8 0 0
Horse Machine,  cutting 28 inches wide   11 0 0
Ditto cutting 36 inches wide   15 0 0

The 28-inch and 36-inch Machines are made very strong and substantial, and will cut the longest and coarsest grass usually met with on Lawns and Pleasure Grounds.

London Agency. - The Manager of the Agricultural Implement Department, Baker Street Bazaar. And may be procured of all respectable Ironmongers and Seedsmen in the Country.

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Google Books/The Cottage Gardener/1856/P13