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Contributors,

Many thanks for your help.

Kind regards,

Julian Lindley

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Perhaps you should be aware that all the available mowers will fill all the available space!
Enjoy

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That makes sense. I think that the Westwood badged Dynamarks had the pressed steel decks as per your images and the first Plymouth built machines had the fabricated decks; the 28” one being known as the the-penny-bit deck.
Now I wonder why ?!

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I believe that Westwood manufactured tractors date from a bit earlier than has been suggested as we were servicing quite well used ones in 1981. I use the word manufactured as it is my understanding that the very early ones were American Dynamarks badged Westwood. Maybe someone can enlarge on that.
Westwoods used to have specification labels – in various places – but they were of adhesive foil construction and many will have disappeared. If you machine has an original Briggs and Stratton engine it will have the words Model, Type and Code stamped into the engine cowling – possibly just above the spark plug. The code number will reveal the year, month and day of manufacture. If it starts with 82, that is 1982.

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Thankyou will do !
Do you have any info on the machine like how old it may be ? I’m just interested

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Change the oil regularly, service the air filter regularly and keep the underside of the deck clean. Stay away from the hose pipe or pressure washer. Store the machine in the dry.
Deck rot is your worst enemy. Scrape out all the wet grass and gunge – particularly at the end of the season.

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We sold a few but they were not a success. Their weakness was that unless the conditions were just right the drive through the front roller used to slip and dig furrows in the lawn. I think that I still have a parts book somewhere.
They were manufactured in Italy by the same company that produced Harry rotary mowers.

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Thankyou for the update , much appreciated.

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Here she is 🙂

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That’s great the help is appreciated regards Dan

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Yes I realised that after I put the black on but I am going to re do it in red, the Miller cover has been basically remade as it was fairly rotten! Will keep you up to date on my progress.

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Well a lot has progressed in 3
Months, I plan to start a thread in the projects forum. My 56A is coming along well. I managed to track down a brand new piston! I found the gearbox to be in good shape but had to spend a lot of time freeing up seized hubs etc. Here is a before pic and a couple of photos showing how it is looking up to date! I have lost track of the hours I have spent on her so far! I am aiming for completion towards the end of the year! I am very much inspired by Sean’s restoration and have been using his brilliant documentation as my go to guide!

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Any help would be great 👍

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Thank you both, I did suspect that but much happier now. Don’t go away I have feeling I’ll be back again. Cleaning and derusting the cutter bar at the moment. Can’t remember now which engine it was but I’d never consider using cooling fins again.

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Good Morning Charlie

Thanks for getting back in touch but I have managed to sort it out it was a broken bush which I’ve rectified.

I will know for next time to enclose a photo of the subject. This is my first time doing this.

Regards

Gerald Hicks

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