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Collection, Preservation and Display of Old Lawn Mowers

Shanks Advertisement in Gardeners Chronicle

  • ALEXANDER SHANKS AND SON, Machine Makers, Ogilvy Place, Arbroath, respectfully solicit the attention of the Nobility, Gentry, and Gardeners to their IMPROVED GRASS CUTTING ROLLING MACHINE for LAWNS, the completeness of which has now been fully Proved. The Machine works with perfect ease, producing a beautiful smooth surface, and attended with a saving of labour of 80 per cent. 

    A. S. and Son respectfully solicit the attention of the Farmers, Agriculturists, and others to an Improved STRAW or HAY CUTTING MACHINE, which they here recently invented. The cheapness and utility of this improved Machine, combined with superior workmanship and durability, enable the inventors confidently to recommend it, as the most profitable Machine of the kind yet sent out. Further particulars and a list of prices may be had, by applying to the makers or to their Agents. Agents for London, Messrs. J. and C. Lee, Nursey and Seedsmen, Hammersmith; Hertford, Mr. George Folkard, Ironmonger; Liverpool, Messrs. Charles D. Young and Co., Castle Buildings, Derby-square; Manchester, Messrs. Francis and James Dickson and Co., Seedsmen, 106 Deansgate; Wakefield, Mr. Wm. Barratt, Nursery and Seedsman, St. Johns; Chester, Messrs. F. and J. Dickson, Nursery and Seedsmen; Glasgow, Messrs. Charles D. Young and Co., 32, St. Enoch-square; Edinburgh, Messrs. Charles D. Young and Co., 48 North Bridge; Perth, Messrs. Dickson and Turnbull, Nursery and Seedsmen.

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    Gardeners Chronicle
    Date
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    BHL/Gardeners Chronicle/1850/P399