Welcome To The Old Lawnmower Club

The Old Lawnmower Club was formed in 1990 to promote the collection, preservation and display of lawn mowers made from 1830 onwards.

We now have more than 500 members around the world.

Atco motor mower from the 1930s

Honda Reveals Oldest Motor Mower

The Hall & Duck Trust has won a competition organised by Honda to find the UK's oldest working motor mower. The winning machine was the 1902 Ransomes motor mower that many club members know as "The Cadbury Machine".

Andrew Hall and Michael Duck with the 1902 Ransomes motor mower and the prize Honda rotary.

Fastest Lawn Mower Unveiled

OK, so it's not very old but this should be interesting to any lawn mower enthusiasts. A team of British engineers is planning to break the land speed record for a lawn mower. You can read about them here and see a video of the speedy mower below:

Annual Rally 2009 Images Added

As part of our ongoing site revamp we have today added some images showing this year's annual rally. We'll be adding more images of earlier rallies in the coming days and weeks. You can find the images in the events section of the website.

Epic Mower Journey On BBC

BBC TV's "Inside Out" programme (shown only in Eastern England) recently featured a story with which many mower enthusiasts are familiar. In 1959 a group of trainees and apprentices of Ransomes drove a lawn mower non-stop from Edinburgh to London. You can see the video of the story, with archive footage from 1959, here:

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