Ransomes & Sims - Budding's Machine
Budding's Machine for Cutting Grass Plats, fitted with front wheels, and with all the recent Improvements.
The engraving shows the design that was used from 1853-60
Taken from page 41 of the Ransomes & Sims 1857 catalogue. A copy of the original catalogue can be found at The Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading.
RANSOMES & SIMS CATALOGUE, 1857. Page 41
BUDDING'S MACHINE FOR CUTTING GRASS PLATS. Fitted with FRONT WHEELS, and with all the recent Improvements.
This unique and valuable adjunct to the pleasure ground and garden of the nobleman or gentleman, has now stood the test of twenty years' experience, and continues in as high repute as ever. R. & S. alone have sold upwards of fifteen hundred, which have given universal satisfaction; and they are still in good demand.
This Machine is so easy to manage, that persons unpractised in the art of mowing may cut the grass on lawns, pleasure grounds, and bowling greens, with ease. It is easily adjusted to cut to any length; and the beauty of its operation is, that it leaves no seam, nor any of the cut grass upon the lawn. Other advantages. of this Machine are, that the grass may be cut when dry, and, consequently, it may be used at such hours as are most convenient to the gardener or workman, while the expense of mowing is considerably lessened, as more than double the work may be done with the same manual labour that is requisite with the scythe.
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