Covering the period 1920-90 Brian Bell deals with the development of the smaller machines used on estates, allotments, nurseries and large gardens. In the majority of sections the companies are dealt with in alphabetical order.

For this enlarged edition (of Fifty Years of Garden Machinery) the author has fully revised all the sections, increased the length of the text and added many new photographs.

• Two-wheel garden tractors
• Ride-on tractors
• Ploughs, cultivators and hoes
• Sowing, spreading and spraying
• Lawn mowers and motor scythes
• Saws, trucks and other equipment.