Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

If you have the old belt any good belt supplier should be able to match it to a stock item. If you do not have the old belt it should be possible to obtain one of the correct size if youtake the machine to a belt supplier where they can measure pulleys etc to calculate size required.

Your Howard is a 400

The Museum ofEnglish Rural Life (MERL) at Reading have the factory records.

Topic locked to keep things civil.

No changes as far as I am aware or can see. I always use th e’view new content’ option on the menu.

Latest issue is in post and should arrive soon if it has not already arrived.
Now available to download from The Cultivator page, (paid up members only).

Could it be a tag off a sack of seed eg grass seed?

Another source of control cable inner, outer, ferrules and nipples is motor cycle paerts suppliers. In the past I have used Feked.com

The DVLA can be very difficult to deal with when tryingto register an older vehicle.

A simple google search gave this site https://www.toro.com/en-gb

There is a good write up on the F190 in the 23rd Dec 1965 isue of Motor Cycle.

If you are trying to identify a machine you have why not post a photo on here and we will be able to identify it.

I see the plate says made in Lawrenceburg TN, USA. Have you tried the USA rather than Murray Europe?

It is also worth using a penetrating fluid such as Plus Gas rather than WD40.

Have you tried heating the wheel around where the key is. In addition to expanding the metal I have found the heat helps breakdown rust. Very likely, as suggested in another post on the forum, the gib key has been hammered in too far previously.

Chris, sorry for confusion, Jim is the shop keeper now. I will get website updated and chase Jim to check email is working.

Joe, many thanks for sorting this.

I would say no as it was built as a ride on machine. Better safe than sorry with insurance.

Thank you for kind comments, content quantity and quality is entirely down to members that submit articles, I only dothe layout.
Front cover photo was supplied by Geoff, I will have to ask him what it is, I thinkir=t is a canal boat tug of some sort. Note to self, add line in editors ramblings to say what cover photo shows.
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