Super Mower Fleet Reaches 10: the Biggest in Europe, Designed and Built by British Engineers

How British engineering is receiving an unlikely boost by creating Europe's largest lawnmowers

York, UK (PRWeb) February 22, 2007 -- Two new super mowers are nearing completion at Rolawn. They will bring the Rolawn "fleet" of Europe's largest grass cutting machinery to ten.

Each machine can mow up to 60 hectares a day (that's around 75 premier league size football pitches). There are 21 individual cutting heads suspended from a 40 foot (12 metre) wide beam per mower. All the equipment was designed and built by engineers based in the company workshops at Elvington on the outskirts of York.

Rolawn has 3,600 acres of turf in production in the Vale of York. Up to 60 articulated loads of turf a day are despatched across the UK mainland at peak times. A consistent mowing regime right up to the point of harvesting is seen as a vital part of what is now a modern and sophisticated process.

"We often read about British Engineering being in the doldrums but here is something to celebrate," said Terry Ryan, Rolawns Sales and Marketing Director. "Quite simply there is nothing bigger or more efficient anywhere else in Europe and we are proud of the fact that they are a British innovation developed by a Yorkshire based company. This is one time when size matters." The design of the equipment has been legally protected.

Rolawn is Europe's larger producer of cultivated Turf (http://www.rolawn.co.uk) and is also recognised as Britain's leading supplier of high quality topsoil (http://www.topsoil.co.uk). Located in the Vale of York, Rolawn is an independent business whose reputation has been established for over 30 years. Rolawn also provide bark, lawn seed and lawn food and fertiliser (http://www.rolawndirect.co.uk/products-rolawn_lawn_food_and_fertiliser.html).

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