Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

We own 3 Howard Bantams the first one We aquired in around 1983 and that had the wrong carb fitted and was very bad in starting .We bought a new Tecumseh 4hp engine and altered the engine plate to fit that engine but could never get it to work properly then an Idea of fitting a Lawn mower clutch which worked very well which when you reved the engine the clutch would bite which worked very well ,thin in the late 1980’s We bought Various Howard 300 and 350’s and then in the early 1909’s We did up the original engine a Villers 25c by that time We had lost the engine cradle bits any way when talking to Chester Hudson He said he could help up with the engine cradle bit and We thought second hand but no He had all brand new bits from his stock He even helped us with the orginal Villiers engine telling us there were differences between Villiers engines which would cause bad running and He even sorted us with the later Villiers bottom end and now going back to the carb ,In a conversation with the late James Reeve of J P Reeve ,Garden Machinery of Chipping Norton Oxfordshire ,He said that He would see what could be done anyway in the days of Villiers at Wolverhampton still going the answer came back to James Reeves yes We can make a new carb for it and made us a brand new Carb out of old stock spare parts Villiers Built us a brand new carb anyway that is the end of my story .I still own the machine but have not run it for many years but is in dry storage