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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic The Cultivator. February 2024 in the forum General talk and discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:57:07 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Cultivator arrived all ok today.</p>
<p>Many Thanks,</p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic The Cultivator. February 2024 in the forum General talk and discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 12:37:23 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oops.!..I got the renewal reminder note.  😉  Hopefully all addressed ok now, with payment sent.  The months wander by and amongst renewing other subscriptions at the turn of the year,  I had somehow missed this one.</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p>C.   </p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Classic Hayter in the forum Help and information</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2021 17:20:37 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a low-ish serial number  model 306 Harrier 41 autodrive and that I believe to be 1989.<br />
Mine has the finger trigger height adjuster not a screw type as on the machine in photo. It does though have the same engine.  No OPC, which I believe was reqd by 1995.</p>
<p>  I also have a Harrier 48 from 1987, which has the height adjuster similar in&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-21820"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/classic-hayter/#post-36967" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Wolesely clearway in the forum Help and information</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:01:23 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My thought was based on my thinking that the existing short belt was tightened into drive by its rear pulley being drawn back which thus also puts the &#8220;fibre&#8221; wheel into drive within the large gearbox pulley.</p>
<p> ..and then, for forward motion, another belt, missing?, provided the alternative drive from engine pulley to around the large pulley,&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-21727"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/wolesely-clearway/page/2/#post-36871" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Wolesely clearway in the forum Help and information</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 16:23:08 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is there another belt missing. ? that gives forward drive via the large rear pulley.  Is there a jockey pulley just visible low down in image 2.?<br />
 I&#8217;m thinking that at the moment it is operating with fibre wheel into the rear pulley in the same way as the reverse, Back Out, function of older Merry Tiller operated.</p>
<p> I was aware of a mechanical&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-21723"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/wolesely-clearway/page/2/#post-36866" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Wolesely clearway in the forum Help and information</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 16:23:08 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is there another belt missing. ? that gives forward drive via the large rear pulley.  Is there a jockey pulley just visible low down in image 2.?<br />
 I&#8217;m thinking that at the moment it is operating with fibre wheel into the rear pulley in the same way as the reverse, Back Out, function of older Merry Tiller operated.</p>
<p> I was aware of a mechanical&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-21722"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/wolesely-clearway/page/2/#post-36866" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Wolesely clearway in the forum Help and information</title>
				<link>https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/wolesely-clearway/#post-36823</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:11:29 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m thinking that this one is pre the HS30 as there was I believe a mechanical drive earlier version&#8230;but then I&#8217;ve never actually seen a mechanical one.  I suspect the engine is a much more recent swap.</p>
<p>C.</p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Wolesely clearway in the forum Help and information</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:11:29 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m thinking that this one is pre the HS30 as there was I believe a mechanical drive earlier version&#8230;but then I&#8217;ve never actually seen one.  I suspect the engine is a much more recent swap.</p>
<p>C.</p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic History in the forum General talk and discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:29:20 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lovely to see the photos.<br />
 The showroom one is reminiscent of my arrival into the garden machinery world 1980/81..as that looks to be a Honda F400 tiller on the right.?  My employer was both Mountfield and Honda agent.  One of my YTS jobs was to assemble F400 from the pallets that they arrived on (needing final assembly).  Two packed to a pallet&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-21222"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/history/#post-36299" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Palindromes in the forum General talk and discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:07:05 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had to do a brushcutter and trimmer course to keep up with compliance at work..  Nylon line trimmer, not a strimmer 😉 as I understand that Strimmer is a trademark..however, Nylon isn&#8217;t 🙂</p>
<p>C.</p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Atco Ensign B14 project in the forum Projects</title>
				<link>https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/atco-ensign-b14-project/#post-35182</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2020 19:20:52 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s some photos scanned from the Ensign sales literature of the day&#8230;includes views of the grassbox 😉 🙂 </p>
<p>C. </p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Dori 600 mower/jlo two stroke in the forum Help and information</title>
				<link>https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/dori-600-mowerjlo-two-stroke/#post-35141</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 06:12:41 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 720H, think it was really 723H ??  with H for Honda engine.  It was a bit of trouble early on, had a few problems which related to slighty poor manufacture/assembly/simplification over early versions.  Mostly related to set and position of belt guides which I then got the measure of, thence ok  The full surrounding guide around transmission&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-20191"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/dori-600-mowerjlo-two-stroke/#post-35141" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Dori 600 mower/jlo two stroke in the forum Help and information</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2020 06:06:00 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Previously in the UK Dori (Dorigny) was with IPU, Industrial Power Units and also I seem to recall Hancox.?</p>
<p>At my work location we ran a Dori 720H 29&#8243; rotary mower from 1995 up to 2013.   </p>
<p>At various times when changes of UK support was in process we had difficulty with spares, in one instance despite measuring and also sending photos to the&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-20181"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/dori-600-mowerjlo-two-stroke/#post-35133" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Dori 600 mower/jlo two stroke in the forum Help and information</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2020 06:06:00 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Previously Dori (Dorigny) in UK was with IPU, Industrial Power Units and also I seem to recall Hancox.?</p>
<p>At my work location we ran a Dori 720H 29&#8243; rotary mower from 1995 up to 2013.   </p>
<p>At various times when changes of UK support was in process we had difficulty with spares, in one instance despite measuring and also sending photos to the&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-20180"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/dori-600-mowerjlo-two-stroke/#post-35133" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Dori 600 mower/jlo two stroke in the forum Help and information</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2020 06:06:00 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Previously Dori in UK was with IPU, Industrial Power Units and also I seem to recall Hancox.?</p>
<p>At my work location we ran a Dori 720H 29&#8243; rotary mower from 1995 up to 2013.   </p>
<p>At various times when changes of UK support was in process we had difficulty with spares, in one instance despite measuring and also sending photos to the importer of the&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-20179"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/dori-600-mowerjlo-two-stroke/#post-35133" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic gang mowers in the forum Help and information</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2020 08:07:26 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This has made me think of a photo, maybe in a brochure or even IOG show booklet..can I heck as find it&#8230;!<br />
 Thinking maybe of the prof&#8217; gangs once in the Atco range, were they yellow around the time of Wolseley Webb acquisition to match the rest of the prof range.??</p>
<p>C.</p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Wolseley Clearway Restoration in the forum Pedestrian operated machines</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2020 19:59:13 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brilliant, really good to see a Clearway HS30 getting some restorative attention.</p>
<p>  I used one up to 1995, it was a 1974 machine and would cut and discharge anything in its path.   The hydrostat control meant you could instantly slow forward motion down to a crawl as the going got tough&#8230;and back out quickly too if needed. The deep deck meant it&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-19529"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/wolseley-clearway-restoration/#post-34260" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Super Models in the forum General talk and discussion</title>
				<link>https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/super-models/#post-33881</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2020 07:55:25 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;and here&#8217;s my set of Dinky gangs 🙂</p>
<p>C.</p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Super Models in the forum General talk and discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:26:08 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chance find, spare Britains Atco Villiers engine found in Britains Barrow in dilapidated Britains Greenhouse 🙂</p>
<p>C.</p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Super Models in the forum General talk and discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:19:59 +0100</pubDate>

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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:19:59 +0100</pubDate>

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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Super Models in the forum General talk and discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:18:42 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I may have posted this before.?   </p>
<p>Dinky Super Toys   &#8220;Hand Mower&#8221; 🙂</p>
<p>C.</p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Italian Manufacturer in the forum General talk and discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:20:55 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The sun has come out and I should be out exercising, doing the front garden&#8230;but then my mind wandered back to the mid 1980s and the mowers that Central Spares distributed&#8230;.went under names such as Apollo, Gemini, and the chunky alloy deck, orange painted, Jupiter, etc,etc&#8230;  I&#8217;m not suggesting here any connection with above ask, just&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-19201"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/italian-manufacturer/#post-33815" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Italian Manufacturer in the forum General talk and discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 11:56:26 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In July 1986 Garden Machinery Price Guide, <em>Garda</em> is listed with Vic Konash of Fakenham, Norfolk.  Included is a G38E, electric rotary and G38/3.5/4  15&#8243; rotary 3.5hp BVS143 4 stroke. There is also a second range with designation begining PA&#8230;<br />
   Four Ginge handmowers and a couple of Ginge rotaries are listed with same too&#8230;</p>
<p> Looking back to&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-19199"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/italian-manufacturer/#post-33812" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Italian Manufacturer in the forum General talk and discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 11:56:26 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In July 1986 Garden Machinery Price Guide, <em>Garda</em> is listed with Vic Konash of Fakenham, Norfolk.  Included is a G38E, electric rotary and G38/3.5/4  15&#8243; rotary 3.5hp BVS143 4 stroke. There is also a second range with designation begining PA&#8230;<br />
 Looking back to 1985, I only have few rescued guides, the same distributor is listed a range of machines&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-19198"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/italian-manufacturer/#post-33812" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic two of my machines in the forum Pedestrian operated machines</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:15:44 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello,</p>
<p>  Seeing the Flymo reminded me, due to the lower handle shape, of a year when USA spec Flymos were sold in UK.  Maybe 1981/82.?  Not sure now why it was, maybe in a time of the company UK restructuring.??   The ones I recall had a different kind of plastic governor vane and a control knob on top of the cowl/tank.? So were quite different&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-19151"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/two-of-my-machines/#post-33761" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Motorised barrow identification in the forum Pedestrian operated machines</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:20:11 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have a Google for BarOmix power barrow&#8230;the photos  I found look similar.? less the back skip extension.?</p>
<p>C.</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 20:27:22 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s where our old Honda F400 used to win with its positive gearbox reverse to back out from having worked forward up to a wall of the walled garden.<br />
 Reverse half speed makes sense,  did MT use this system.?  I have seen an old &#8220;back out&#8221; system of theirs on this chassis type that used a second large drive pulley drilled, bolted and spaced to&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-18887"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/clinton-3-5hp/#post-33353" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:35:11 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have realised that I should have written, first left click on thumbnail photo to open in forum viewer and then right click and open image in new tab to get enhanced view.</p>
<p>C.</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:45:38 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have newly discovered that a right click on the photo and then use open link in new tab opens up the image better  which can then be enlarged further.  </p>
<p>It is largely a Merry Tiller that has had a green repaint and lost its belt cover, drive box input pulley, engine pulley and the vital belt guide.  It has an improvised transport wheel set from&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-18876"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/clinton-3-5hp/#post-33343" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:45:38 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have newly discovered that a right click on the photo and then use open link in new tab opens up the image better  which can then be enlarged further.  </p>
<p>It is largely a Merry Tiller that has had a green repaint and lost drive box input pulley, engine pulley and the vital belt guide. It has an improvised transport wheel set from a n other tiller&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-18875"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/clinton-3-5hp/#post-33343" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:45:38 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have newly discovered that a right click on the photo and then use open link in new tab opens up the image better  which can then be enlarged further.<br />
<a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200218_125527.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc">https://vhgmc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200218_125527.jpg</a></p>
<p>It is largely a Merry Tiller that has had a green repaint and lost drive box input pulley, engine pulley and the vital belt&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-18874"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/clinton-3-5hp/#post-33343" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Ginge ride on mower info in the forum Ride-on machines</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 18:21:27 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, I would always associate the name with Wimborne..<br />
In the old price guides by 1988 JT Lowe, Wimborne, had one Norlett cultivator in their entry. Previous year a listing was for 2 cultivators, 2 &#8220;handmowers&#8221; and a cement mixer and the  (division of Flymo sales ltd) was no longer part of their title.<br />
 During 1986 though it shows a full list of&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-18829"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/ginge-ride-on-mower-info/#post-33230" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 11:12:33 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Amazing what you end up finding on a wild windy day with time to sit at the keyboard..<br />
<a href="http://liberallawnmowers.com.pk/products/lawn-mowers/manual-lawn-mowers/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://liberallawnmowers.com.pk/products/lawn-mowers/manual-lawn-mowers/</a>   I&#8217;m off at a bit of a tangent here but there is a Ginge link to one of the side wheel push types.</p>
<p>C. </p>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 09:26:35 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As it&#8217;s very much not a day for digging the garden, as I was doing yesterday, I&#8217;ve had a rummage and found some of the machinery directories from a former career..</p>
<p> Entry update 4/86 shows Ginge with Gardenflex Ltd at a Milton Keynes address, listing 2 handmowers, 2 rotary mowers and a petrol cylinder mower but no riders.</p>
<p> Update of 2/87 shows&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-18820"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/ginge-ride-on-mower-info/#post-33220" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2020 10:26:28 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Resting in the shed I have a Ginge 4 wheel steel deck push rotary which looks early/mid 70s. The steel deck is tired but the Tecumseh derived engine was a very long lived runner, gifted to me by a neighbour when he upgraded to a Honda HR17 a few years ago. It was in turn a replacement for his pre recoil starter Suffolk Colt which also lurks in the&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-18809"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/ginge-ride-on-mower-info/#post-33213" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Ransomes 76 reel cutter in the forum Pedestrian operated machines</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2020 17:59:42 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have at look on this link;  <a href="https://www.jacobsen.com/europe-manuals/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.jacobsen.com/europe-manuals/</a>  and go to the models out of production box to see if you can track it down.<br />
 I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s Multimower 76 ? rather than Vergecutter 76 that you will need to peruse.</p>
<p>For a few months, one summer 1983?, I walked behind a brand new, it was a Y reg, Vergecutter 76 but then moved&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-18771"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/ransomes-76-reel-cutter/#post-33163" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2020 17:59:42 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have at look on this link;  <a href="https://www.jacobsen.com/europe-manuals/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.jacobsen.com/europe-manuals/</a>  and go to the models out of production box to see if you can track it down.<br />
 I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s Multimower 76 ? rather than Vergecutter 76 that you will need to peruse.</p>
<p>For a few months, one summer 1983?, I walked behind a brand new, it was a Y reg, Vergecutter 76 but then moved&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-18770"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/ransomes-76-reel-cutter/#post-33163" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Vintage cylinder mower identification please in the forum Pedestrian operated machines</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:49:16 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s set me thinking.  I wonder if this Valor mower design was a UK one or if it was sourced in.? </p>
<p>I am always fascinated to learn the stories behind these sometimes short production runs of machines </p>
<p>No links to this mower type but I remember going to GLEE exhibition in maybe the late 1980s and there was a range of cast alloy sided cylinder&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-18514"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/vintage-cylinder-mower-identification-please/#post-32838" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Vintage cylinder mower identification please in the forum Pedestrian operated machines</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2019 19:12:45 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for finding and pasting the photo.  Obviously my memory was playing tricks on the colour 😉 ..at least the handles are a cream/buff  🙂</p>
<p>Thank you,<br />
       Clive.</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2019 12:14:27 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I did not know of them until I saw a couple at, I think, the auction at Carrington Rally one year. Although I seem to recall seeing one earlier, maybe in the trade in shed at my first employment in the garden machinery world.?   I can&#8217;t remember the colour but if it is a Valor then I suspect the green is a more recent paint job.?   I&#8217;m tending to&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-18504"><a href="https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/vintage-cylinder-mower-identification-please/#post-32829" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:01:07 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Would it be a Valor.??</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:01:07 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Would it be a Valor product.??</p>
<p>Clive.</p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Wolseley 10 and Martin Markham in the forum Help and information</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2019 18:18:47 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Wolseley that I worked on years ago had a Briggs and Stratton cast iron engine with dynastart.</p>
<p>C.</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Wolseley that I worked years ago had a Briggs and Stratton cast iron engine with dynastart.</p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Qualcast jetstream in the forum General talk and discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 17:42:04 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recall that the Jetstream name was used across more than one pressed steel chassis style. I   am sure that the earlier model was also sold in blue, rather than the gold, possibly under a previous name.?</p>
<p>C.</p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Dynamow in the forum Ride-on machines</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:30:45 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our next door neighbour purchased one new and it enabled him to keep mowing his own lawn whilst ever he was able to.<br />
  He first had an Atco 14&#8243; two stroke then went through a series of Webb 18&#8243;s with an extreme brief interlude with a Suffolk Punch 17&#8243;. Finally ending cylinder mowing with an Atco Commodore 20&#8243;.  Bearing in mind that by the time he&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-17709"><a href="http://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/dynamow/#post-31474" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:30:45 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our next door neighbour purchased one new and it enabled him to keep mowing his own lawn whilst ever he able to.<br />
  He first had an Atco 14&#8243; two stroke then went through a series of Webb 18&#8243;s with an extreme brief interlude with a Suffolk Punch 17&#8243;. Finally ending cylinder mowing with an Atco Commodore 20&#8243;.  Bearing in mind that by the time he got&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-17708"><a href="http://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/dynamow/#post-31474" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:30:45 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our next door neighbour purchased one new and it enabled him to keep mowing his own lawn whilst ever he able to.<br />
  He first had an Atco 14&#8243; two stroke then went through a series of Webb 18&#8243;s with an extreme brief interlude with a Suffolk Punch 17&#8243;. Finally ending cylinder mowing with an Atco Commodore 20&#8243;.  Bearing in mind that by the time he got&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-17707"><a href="http://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/dynamow/#post-31474" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Clive Ironmonger &#034;Dorigny&#034; replied to the topic Advice required - steep drive in the forum Help and information</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2019 17:43:33 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or how about tracking down a Muck Truck.?  A recent/current machine and not vintage, I know,  but an early one would now be quite a classic.  Sold at first as the Allen Sherpa and Bizzy? barrow before being sold directly from Deesign, the designer, and currently by Muck Truck.  </p>
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