INDUSTRY


Hayter and The Toro Company prof ile


The quintessential British mower


Very few lawnmower brands can claim to have as vast and rich a heritage as British lawn mower manufacturer Hayter. They have designed and manufactured quality lawn mowers at their headquarters in Hertfordshire since 1946 and are proud to hold the Royal Warrant for supply of horticultural equipment to Her Majesty the Queen. Part of the Toro company since 2005, Hayter and Toro have together been able to redefine modern lawncare


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he story of Hayter lawnmowers is one born from humble beginnings and a huge passion for engineering, driven by its founder Douglas Hayter. Born in Bishop’s Stortford on the borders of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1914, Douglas Hayter started his working career as part of a touring air circus, where he found his passion for engineering through servicing aeroplane engines. He also spent part of his early career in the building trade, where he started his own business in 1938, erecting workshops and sawmills as well as manufacturing cattle yard equipment. The venture into lawnmowers began in 1946, when Douglas Hayter borrowed a cutter bar mower from a friend to clear some space for a new office building. The progress of clearing the ground was slow and frustrating, and soon he had imagined a more efficient and time-saving design. Douglas combined the functionality of the historical horse-drawn rotary mower - an invention from a hundred years prior, with


a second hand two-stroke engine. The first ever Hayter rotary lawnmower, complete with a dustbin lid over the rotor was born, and so was the story of the quintessential British lawnmower.


The lawnmower Douglas had designed for himself worked wonders and, before long, he started getting requests for more machines from admiring neighbours and friends.


Later that year, Hayter became incorporated as a limited company and the new Motor Scythe Douglas had created went into full production the following year. It was a hand-propelled motor mower with a 24” cut. Further work was done on product developments, such as a safety stone guard which was fitted to the mower deck. When supplies became more readily available towards the end of the 1940s, a four-stroke Villiers horizontal crankshaft engine was used for the already popular Motor Scythe. Customer requirements and demand saw the development of professional mowers, such as a 5’ and 6’ cut rotary orchard


Douglas Hayter


Innovation has always been at the heart of both Hayter and The Toro Company and we were excited to see how our different backgrounds and areas of expertise could


work together to develop new and exciting products


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