Victor Rotary Bladed Lawnmower
This Invention Is Now Used On Lawns Around The World
In 1952, Mervyn Victor Richardson, a New south Wales engineering salesman, built a simple petrol driven lawn mower with spinning blades. Richardson’s mower, which he named Victa, was light, powerful and easy to use. The rotary action of the blades meant the motorized mower could cut far larger lawns than the conventional push-pull system then in use.
A Victa mower back then cost about 40 pounds at a time when most Australians earned about 30 pounds a week. Yet, so many people bought so many Victa lawnmowers that Richardson quit his job and worked full time to make mowers. By 1955 Richardson had 100 people working for him. By 1992 the Victa company had sold five million Victa lawn mowers in Australia and overseas.
