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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 🙂

Thank you,
Clive.

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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’t remember the colour but if it is a Valor then I suspect the green is a more recent paint job.? I’m tending to think back to some pinky,orangey red with light green, grey buff..?? but memory could be playing tricks…

Clive.

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Would it be a Valor.??

Clive.

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The Wolseley that I worked on years ago had a Briggs and Stratton cast iron engine with dynastart.

C.

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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.?

C.

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Our next door neighbour purchased one new and it enabled him to keep mowing his own lawn whilst ever he was able to.
He first had an Atco 14″ two stroke then went through a series of Webb 18″s with an extreme brief interlude with a Suffolk Punch 17″. Finally ending cylinder mowing with an Atco Commodore 20″. Bearing in mind that by the time he got Dynamow he was partially sighted, in fact registered blind, he used the dodgem like steering to turn immediately around at the end of each bread to keep on track. He used to miss a tiny strip but then mowed again at 90 degrees to first mow to sort this. He was a real old character who would not be beaten in keping his lawns in good order 🙂 He made a timber and ply set up to fit Dynamow so he could mow and eject clippings rather than box.

C.

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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.

C.

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Thank you for posting up the instructions. 🙂

I think I may have mentioned it before, my Merry-Truck has a chassis made of round tube, as in your photo, but it has a navvy barrow body with it rather than a truck body. The barrow body does not have any holes in it so it hasn’t come from a dismantled wheelbarrow but it is that type of body. It has a square tube welded under with round in the ends as the axle that sits on the hooks at the back of the chassis….doing this from memory as it is rather buried in the back of a shed.!
Has anyone else got a navvy barrow body truck or was it a local product from our local dealer.?

Clive.

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He had heavy clay soil and was using it in his market gardening so it would have been worked hard.
If i recall Aspera flywheels have 3 holes that can be tapped out to mount a plate and bolt type puller so that the pull is close to the centre boss of the flywheel. Never use a leg type puller as the flywheel is very thin alloy away from the central boss and will crack. There was also a knock off device that screwed on in lieu of the nut but careful too the threaded portion is easily bent/broken.

C.

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My Uncle had an M1 identical to this one. His was fitted with Aspera at new, which was an early casualty, he then replaced it with a Briggs 3.5Hp.
His was identical with the central drive engagement lever. More recent models had a handlebar clutch lever and jockey pulley.

Clive.

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Thank you for the info ref the founders of Westwood and Templar. I love trying to tie up these such links even though it’s now 26+ years since my employment in the garden machinery world.

I remember the blue Templar Turbo, thence became yellow Crown.?..then maybe Allen.?

Clive.

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With the link to the Westwood Gemini this leads me to wonder who actually made and assembled these tillers.?

Moving up a size, thinking of the larger Westwood tillers. Was there a link between Westwood, Templar, older Qualcast Cultimatic.?..thinking of the welded chassis and handle styles.?

Clive.

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Link from the Allotment and Garden equipment forum.

http://www.allotment-garden.org/rotavator-manuals/flymo-cultivator-manual-1.pdf

C.

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I think it’s a Flymo DM. I believe the front lever is to do with a barrow body that could be fitted when wheels would replace the tines. The handles were attached via a bracket onto the cylinder head bolts.

Almost the same chassis was used by Westwood with a Suffolk cast iron engine…was it the Gemini.?

Clive.

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That was my thought too with ref the look of the single wheel. I recall those motor scythes in blue, brown too.? Badged for various suppliers inc Sheen.

I saw this tiller posted up on another forum and really intrigued to know its identity. It looks a bit heavier construction than the motor scythes pressed steel and chromed handles.?

Clive.

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