Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

Here’s a thought, when three wheel cars such as Bond Minicars, Berkeleys or Messerschmidts needed to reverse, they would reverse the direction of the starter. By simply reversing the direction of the current.

Shardy looks loke a typo to me. Reeves of Bratton, Nr Westbury in Wiltshire made a lot of ploughs, seed drills and other items such as hen houses, horse rakes etc. I enclose a brochure page showing your equipment and they describe it as a Grass and Clover Distributer, avoiding the Shandy or Shardy term altogether!

Try Allotment.org.uk for the manual and Briggsbits.co.uk for the engine info….

…and here’s one ploughing in very heavy conditions, Berwick St. John, 2008…

I’m guessing it was blacksmith made

Mayfield garden tracors had ratchets in the hubs which would ease steering, my Fouroaks Spraymobile has a Mayfield chassis but the hubs are seized making it a bit hard to turn, if it had 25 gallons of weed killer on board it would be even harder! 1st picture. My 1953 Mayfield, 2nd picture My 1955 Spraymobile.

It may be worth sending your info to Charlie with the pictures and he could put it in the Cultivator Magazine for you, there may be someone nearby who can have a look at it for you.

Looks correct to me and Factory or line no is 6

Hi Zorro, Welcome! A member called vhgmcbuddy had one and our friend wristpin knows all about them!Here’s a link….
https://www.google.com/search?q=Nickerson+Turfmaster+T84&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I took the attached picture in 2014 at Newark of a Howard Mini-Gapper, Owned at the time by Mr. Mervyn Gathercole of Kings Lyn, Norfolk.

How about Drayton, as used in Ransomes Crawlers. German diesel marine engine….

Did any early mowers have Blackburn engines, Blackburn was an aircraft firm, they were used in some motorcycles and Morgan 3 wheelers….

Mike, Your Wanted Advert is in the April Cultivator! Good Luck, there must be some more in sheds somewhere.

A better picture….

I too have an unknown barrow sprayer. I’ve never seen anything like it but it has a paddle as well. They may have been made by local blacksmith for a large estate.

According to my info. the letter O after S80 is the year 1958…

Looks like an M&G product, more well known for their seed drills.

I have a book for the F15 engine and it mentions a Flywheel extractor, it seems it doesn’t self-extract like the older Villiers engines.

Douglas made agricultural equipment, shoe making tools, motorcycles and Italian Vespa scooters all in Kingswood Near Bristol.