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Old electric cylinder lawnmowers
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Ransomes 1930's 24" prototype electric mower
1930's
experimental 24" mains electric Ransomes
This mower, or a very similar one, still survives - see below
Photographs courtesy of Reading University's Rural History Centre
Ransomes
electric lawnmower in 2001 at the Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket.
This unit appears to be closely related to the mower shown above, and may be the
same
Colour photograph by kind permission of Keith Wootton
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