Buddings Patent No. 3157 at The London Science Museum

Photographed at the Science Museum in London in 1995.

Budding mower No. 3157 is estimated to have been manufactured around 1849. John Ferrabee stated in the Gardeners' Chronicle in 1848 that almost 3000 machines had been sold and in 1849 over 3000 machines had been sold. It was manufactured by John Ferrabee & Sons of The Phoenix Ironworks, Stroud, Gloucestershire.