The Old Lawnmower Club

Old lawn mowers are featured in Britain's Greatest Machines on the National Geographic channel in the UK (available on Sky and Virgin) on Saturday 20 February at 9pm. The show is presented by Chris Barrie (Rimmer the hologram in Red Dwarf) and features machines from a different decade each week. This week it's the 1920s and the show includes Chris trying out an Atco Standard. That's all we know but if you wanted to choose one mower from the 1920s it would have to be the Standard. You can see more about the show, with still images and a short preview video at the link below.

The results of our first visitor poll are now in and it's a resounding "yes" for the modern machine. More than half of the 120 voters said their favourite era of mower was "Post 1945". This might come as a bit of a surprise to some collectors but the votes don't lie.

Thanks to everyone who voted. There's a new poll to try out and we'll await the results with keen interest.

Meanwhile, the results of the first poll are included below.

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".