Budding Patent Machine in Ransome and May Catalogue
A extract from Ransome & May catalogue dated 1848.
The original prices listed are crossed out and lower prices written in by hand, for all three sizes available: 16in, 19in, 22in.
The price of Gardner's Patent Turnip cutter was also reduced. The late James Gardner of Banbury's business had been taken over a few years previously by Samuelson & Co, who by 1851 were one of the first companies to manufacture in their own right the Budding's Patent Mower (as they exhibited at The Great Exhibition of 1851).
RANSOMES & MAY'S CATALOGUE.
BUDDING'S
Patent Machine for Cutting Grass Plats, &c.
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.
Budding's Patent Grass Cutter, 16 in. 6 16 6* 6 5 0 Ditto ditto, 19 in. 7 7 0* 6 15 0 Ditto ditto, 22 in. 7 17 0* 7 5 0 S. H. Colwell, Printer, Butter Market, Ipswich.
Note: numbers marked * are crossed out on the original with the lower figures written adjacently by hand
Note: only the sections relevant to the lawn mower are transcribed here from the original document
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