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Budding Mower at Dublin Exhibition

A Liverpool Ironmonger exhibited a 19in Budding Lawnmower at the Royal Dublin Society's event in 1851. This would have been one of the original type mowers with adjustable roller behind the cutting cylinder.

  • 1851-07-08 Royal Dublin Society Exhibition

    THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY, FROM NOVEMBER 7, 1850, TO JUNE 26, 1851.

    VOL. LXXXVII. ELSON TRI PLENA LABORIS PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS,

    BY M. H. GILL, PRINTER TO THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY. 1851.

    LOT XXII.-Messrs. Charles D. Young and Co., Liverpool. One Corn Rick Stand, 12 feet diameter, with nine pillars. Price £3 158.

    PAGE 91 27. Budding's Patent Lawn Mowing Machine, nineteen inches broad. Price £7 28.

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    Exhibition
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    Source
    Google Books/Proceedings of Royal Dublin Society/1851/P93
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