The Hall & Duck Trust
Collectors of vintage lawnmowers & housing the premier historic collection of mowers in Great Britain
Our dating and identity service is unique within the vintage machinery movement being based on extensive archive of information that we have built up over many years.
Consequently, our archival resource is vast covering many areas of research, to include:
* Many original company papers and photographs.
* Complete lawn mower old GB Patents 1830 - 1940.
* A complete run of Patent abridgments classification 6, years 1855 - 1930.
* Over 40 periodicals and directories covering the
lawnmower trade here and the USA from Victorian times to the 1970's.
* All Ransomes production records for dating lawn mowers 1832 - 1970.
* The original cardex system for Lloyds of Letchworth
* A collection of complete printing plates for Automower, Norton St Phillips, Somerset.
* An extremely large collection of original lawn mower brochures and catalogues from 1830 to the Present day.
* A unique library of books collected over 40 years of research on turf science, culture and grasses from all over the world from 1820 - to the present day.
Restoration Service
We are able to help collectors source a wide variety of parts for their machines.
We can help with general restoration problems by providing advice and information about the original machines.
We can also supply replacements for broken or missing castings (aluminium or cast iron) using our own machines as original patterns.
Quotations are available on request.