Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

Bonjour, pourriez vous m’envoyer la PARTLIST du Honda F80? philouen.lardier@gmail.com, merci

Regarding Your Pioneer P12 . There are a whole manor of these saw out there as although badged Pioneer these were as someone told Me at the time in the early 1980’s produced in around 50 different colours and most Major manufactures of chain saws had one in their range which was normally the bottom of the range . The saws themselves were made by…[Read more]

What I wrote above was about the first one the next 2 were as follows . When answering an add in the Citizen a local evening paper a person from Hartpury near Gloucester had a Bantam for sale which turned out to be a Villiers engine Mark 15 engine model and these are not my favourite machines as the 4 stroke engine does not seem to be as…[Read more]

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…[Read more]

Bonjour , avez vous encore vos Motoculteurs ? car je cherche des pièces pour ces modèles , contre rémunération bien entendu. Philippe

My copy landed on the mat yesterday as well, will done to the team for all their effort.

My mag arrived today, The fertiliser and seeds broad casters, I broke up my old 1936 Austin Cambridge and turned it into one of those, used forty years, then axle went on again back onto a car to save the day so 102 years of use and still going.

Hi what you have there is a Gutbrod 1031 tractor, some were badged Allen Motorstandard tractors they were imported to England by John Allen and Co of Oxford,and were badged Allen Motorstandard, during the 1960s/qnd early 1970s, they were of German manufacture and were very strong well made little tractors, and are very collectable today, I have…[Read more]

All contributions to the magazine are greatly appreciated whatever they are.
Mt copy also arrived today.

Hi, I have just uncovered a little tractor.
Although I am in Portugal I am told the machine is British. It was brought here by a Brit couple.
It has a Siba DynaStart made in England, so that means the machine is post 1954, assuming the starter is the original.
I put jump leads on it; the battery is kaput, of course, and the motor turns! Not…[Read more]

Mine also , top work to all concerned. When I can get my daughter on the case , I hope to do an article soon , it will be my first ever attempt , so you’ll have to forgive me if it appears amateurish.

Andy.

Bang on time my copy arrived in the post today.

I should be able to help. send me an email.
njarrett@btinternet.com

Neil Jarrett is your man , he’s a member here , Ransomes 256.

Andy.