Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

I am not aware of any Uni-Horse clubs or groups.

There is the Lea-Francis Owners Club, which mentions the Uni-Horse, but the club generally seems more geared towards the cars that were made.

https://lfoc.org/index.php/unihorse-tractor

I hope you manage to find a tractor and a plough to continue your ploughing.

Thanks for the extra details.

If any members want to correct the following information, then please do so! Info is a bit scarce and hard to search for.

Indeed, the USA company Troy-Bilt uses the Bronco model name – although, as far as I can tell, there’s no connection between them and your machine. It really muddled things when I were doing…[Read more]

Also, to the right of the Bronco name on the casting it says J.S. and then a number. What is that number?

An interesting machine!

There seems to be very little information on the internet. However, from what I have seen, I assume that the tiller is the Bronco brand, possibly with an address in Villareal, Italy?

Do you have any further details which may narrow down the search?

I see that there is an ID plate on the engine. What are the details on…[Read more]

Thanks for the extra information.

I couldn’t find anything in online archives for your machine; it’s a bit of a mystery at present.

Parts of the machine match other Shay products; these include the handles and wheels.

I’m unsure if Shay manufactured products for any other manufacturer, potentially the machine may be listed under a different…[Read more]

I know nothing about Shay, but I thought I’d have a look in the corners of the internet and see what I could find.

I cannot see anything similar. Shay did produce the Countryman, approximately a 1960s machine, photo attached.

Do you have any further information that may narrow it down, such as the width of the cut, the size of the rear wheels,…[Read more]

It looks like a Geest truck, made by Geest, the same company associated with bananas.

I do not know models, but trucks were manufactured from the 1950s to the 1970s. Addresses were advertised as Geest Industries Limited (Truck Division) Spalding, Lincolnshire, and Marsh Lane Truck Factory, Boston, Lincolnshire

Brian Bell’s book ’70 Years of…[Read more]

It does look like the slitter and others were fitted on the back in place of the rake bit. I’ve found a photo in the 1985 brochure with the slitter attached.

Until I looked, I hadn’t realised that the Lawngroomer Mark1 was such a short-lived attachment – just 1983 to 1986.

I have looked through my Westwood brochures, and two pages detail the Lawn Groomer which may be of help. Attached as a PDF.

Westwood used to have instructions on their website for the range of tractors but not implements. Anyway, the company is now defunct, and the website is no longer available.

The Lawn Groomer is early 1980s. In the…[Read more]

Hello

The club has someone who replies to all the emails, and there are quite a few each day. However, I have reviewed the email log and cannot find a recent email from you in the database. It may have got lost or not saved. If it’s not too much trouble, could I ask for you to resend your query?

Many thanks

The Triplex 84 dates back to approximately 1968. Are there any identification plates on the tractor?

The very early machines had rope-start Villiers engines, which were superseded by Kohler engines.

I see that your machine has a mesh panel at the front above the original grille – has your bonnet been lifted and a replacement engine fitted at some time?

There’s certainly a couple of models of the Braune/Batric carts. They seem to have been made starting in the 1960s but not sure exactly when. The invalid cars were more successful and were certainly produced into the 1980s.

I wonder if the carts and invalid cars used much the same (or interchangeable) wiring, motor and battery systems?

There…[Read more]

Thank you for the adverts about Aspera Frigo. Interesting to see the connections between all the companies. I had not seen those adverts before.

I have a Tecnamotor service manual, attached as a PDF. There is a list of 2-stroke engine specifications at the end of section F.The models mentioned are AH47 AV47, AH58, AH81, V51-TA, H51-TH, VA-VH,…[Read more]