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Hayter

When local builder Douglas Hayter was asked to help with the production of temporary housing in the closing months of the World War II, his work ethos lived up to that most famous of phrases, 'necessity is the mother of invention'!

Original Lawnmower Inventor

Primarily made of timber, these temporary accommodations had to be cheap and quick to assemble. The problem lay in the proximity of the drying sheds used to cure the building wood. Being difficult to access because of the severely overgrown grass and vegetation around them, Hayter came up with an ingenious, on-the-spot plan, which was to change his life and that of the gardening world forever. By mounting an old two-stroke motorcycle engine on top of a dustbin lid, adding some pram wheels and attaching a sharpened blade to the crankshaft, the modern lawnmower was born!

Computer Generated Technology

Of course, today's Hayter lawnmowers are a little more sophisticated than Douglas's initial concept. Using advanced computer-generated technology and composite materials not to hand in the mid-forties, Hayter garden maintenance products today are regarded as the pinnacle of design and function - stylish, practical and super-effective at what they were built to do.