From horse-drawn to horsepower, Britain’s favourite lawnmower
manufacturer Hayter is celebrating 75 years of lawn mowing.
Hayter,
makers of the finest mowers, have been designed and manufactured at the
Spellbrook headquarters in Hertfordshire since 1946. And the company is still
operating and innovating the lawn care industry from the same site today.
Beginning
with Douglas Hayter and a horse-drawn rotary motor, combined with a second hand
two-stroke engine, the first ever Hayter rotary lawnmower was created. Requests
then came for Douglas to create more machines for his friends and neighbours.
Soon after, Hayter became incorporated as a limited company, with Douglas’
mowers entering full production.
In
the following years the Hayter business went on to design and manufacture many
successful lawnmowers, including the extremely popular and iconic Hayterette
machine in 1957, which was awarded the BAGMA award for “Best Horticultural
Machine of the Year”.
In
1960, Hayter received one of the country’s finest accolades, being granted the
Royal Warrant for the supply of machinery to HM Queen Elizabeth II, an honour
still retained to this day.
The
1970’s saw the introduction of Hayter’s flagship and most popular lawnmower,
the Hayter Harrier, which was one of the first rotary-bladed
lawnmowers to feature an integrated heavy rear-roller, enabling the user to
achieve the quintessentially British, striped finish in their gardens.
Craig Hoare, Sales and Marketing Manager at Hayter said: “With the
Harrier range still in production today, it is great to see Douglas Hayter’s
legacy still continuing on. His eye for innovation is still at the core of everything
we do at Hayter, with our new range or Harrier mowers being fully battery
powered, while still retaining the power and quality of a petrol Harrier
machine. We continue to design and engineer all Hayter machines in Britain, at
the Spellbrook headquarters – just down the road from where Douglas lived and
created the first Hayter lawnmowers.
“It is a real honour to continue Douglas’ work in this new age, 75
years on, from his original genius and innovation.”
