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Got them finished painted. That's it for now, but I do have a future mod in mind. Covers for the outside to tidy things up.

Some years ago I bought a very early Ransomes 30" cut lawn mower with a ride on roller seat, I bought it as a source of vital spares for the MG2 crawlers as they share a common engine. When it arrived it was far too good to break for spares and ran like clockwork. I decided to try and use it but my lawns are too complex for such a large cumbersome machine and it is much too fast to walk behind. I then bought another with a view to breaking that and low and behold same thing happened, it is a 36" cut and again seemed to good to break. I now want the space they take up and this is my dilemna, as a mower however good I might get £80-100, if I remove the carb, magneto and most of the engine parts that are MG2 compatible I would make £5-600 off each mower plus the scarp value of the chassis which is extremely heavy. I have spoken to various museums and collectors of ancient mowers and they say there is no demand for such big mowers for the same reason I found. The debating point is do I scrap the mowers to keep a few MG 2 crawlers going or do I keep them as examples of engineering excellence from the days when Britain was great and if so does any body want to buy them?

managed to make a bit more progress with the bottom cowl tonight. A previous owner had welded on some stops for the bonnet to rest on. All I can say is when I came to grind them off that they did a very thourgh job of welding them in place! Took a look time to remove.

Here's the Bobcat cleaned up some. Nice self-propelled mower.

I'd scrap them and keep anything MG2, Jonathan. Then donate the rollers to a good cause. Me!

Get the engine number etc of it and post on here

Spent another couple of hours on the bonnet, yet still it needs more work! I hate filling!!!