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Collection, Preservation and Display of Old Lawn Mowers

Shanks Advertisement in Gardeners Chronicle

  • SHANKS' NEW IMPROVED PATENT LAWN MOWING, ROLLING, COLLECTING, and DELIVERING MACHINE for 1863, WITH SILENT MOVEMENT IF SPECIALLY DESIRED.

    FURTHER AND IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS-PROTECTED BY LETTERS PATENT. THE FIRST PRIZE MEDAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION WAS AWARDED TO ALEX. SHANKS AND SON FOR THEIR PATENT LAWN MOWERS, NEW HAND MACHINE. 13-INCH or LADY'S MACHINE

    ALEXANDER SHANKS AND SON are gratified to find that the Improvements introduced into their PATENT LAWN MOWERS last season has so entirely successful, that universal satisfaction has resulted from the use of these Machines wherever they have been tried. The Patentees have this introduced further Improvements into their already celebrated Lawn Mowers, which are fully described in their Illustrated Price Lists, which will be at once forwarded on application.

    SHANKS PATENT LAWN MOWERS are in daily use in the ROYAL GARDENS at KEW, WINDSOR, BUCKINGHAM PALACE, HAMPTON COUR OSBORNE, and BALMORAL; in the GARDENS of the ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY at KENSINGTON; in the GROUNDS of the CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY at SYDENHAM; and in many hundreds of the principal Gardens in the Kingdom, as well as Abroad, where their merits have been fully proved, and the success established,

    These Machines will Mow EQUALLY WELL on UNEVEN as on LEVEL LAWNE, and whether the Grass be WET or Day. The execution of the work is not only vastly superior to Mowing with the Scythe, but the constant action of the Rollers on the Turf in a very short time greatly improves its appearance.

    The Machines are warranted to give ample satisfaction, and if not approved of they may be at once returned.

    ALEXANDER SHANKS AND SON, DENS IRON WORKS, ARBROATH, N. B. LONDON OFFICE AND SHOW ROOMS; 27, LEADENHALL STREET, EC.

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    Gardeners Chronicle
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    BHL/Gardeners Chronicle/1863