Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

Just come across this. It is a poultry singer(spelling as on box).

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My web site is now vintagesprayers.uk. The old web site remains available for the time being but is not being updated. The 4 publications which now replace the old site can be downloaded from http://www.vintagesprayers.uk. The publications continue to be corrected and added to as new information comes to light with the latest version being August…[Read more]

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Many thanks for your comments. Without the inspiration of your web site I would not have pursued my interest in sprayers, so I am very grateful to you. My my concern is that the information I have gathered is not lost.

Thank you.

Mike

As Alan thought, I can confirm that Wikeham is linked with the Boundary Chemical Co. Liverpool. The Field 1903 mentions that it can be obtained directly from this company as well as from retailers. A major retailer seems to have been Dicksons of Royal Avenue Belfast. Also sold by the Army and Navy Coop. Probably Killet was a trade name used by…[Read more]

The attached is a similar duster by Drake & Fletcher, Maidstone, Kent. There is nothing on this machine or in the literature I have seen that suggests that they used the logo on your duster, but it may be of interest.

This turns out to be a Calf Inflator or Winding Pump used in the preparation of animal carcasses. Nothing to do with garden use. It is used to pump air into a calf or other dead animal.  The needle part is unscrewed and left in until ‘the flesh is firmly set’.

My Florist Friend 2

Very interesting. Wonderful restoration. The spray head on the one I have is incomplete and I am interested in knowing what it might have looked like. I think the one you have may be earlier than my one though as the design of the head seems to have changed, although the principle remains the same.

Very interesting.Any idea what it was designed to do ? It is difficult to tell from the picture. Are the attachments in the side additional nozzles or is there a reservoir there.?

Florist’s Friend is a Mysto (W.T.French’) logo. The moveable fine sprayer on 434 looks like one I have on a Mysto syringe, but not that model.

Many thanks. My interest was originally in the construction and development of the syringe sprayers, so I have a fairly large collection of unidentified sprayers. Only recently have I started to look at the manufacturers. I agree it is very difficult to identify anything which doesn’t have a mark of some sort. Not only do the ‘same’ models change…[Read more]