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I was browsing, as is my habit (hence the name geddit? ) Ebay's rotavator selection when I chanced upon an advert for a Westwood Gemini http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rotovator_W0QQitemZ170306024298QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Home_Garden_GardenPowerTools_CA?hash=item170306024298&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A7%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 which, apart from the engine, looks remarkably similar to my Flymo DM! Can anyone shed any light on which came first, how this came about?

[dorimower]

They are all but the same....I suspect the link is perhaps that Westwood Engineering made the DM for Flymo ??..
 The Westwood version used a Suffolk engine from the Qualcast/Suffolk/Atco stable. I believe it was the 98cc cast iron 98g14.
 
I seem to think there may have been 2 batches of the DM.??..perhaps more?..I have feeling that there was some detail differences with the arm for the jockey pulley.??...but all is a long time ago.....
I have long had my suspicions of other tie ups ref Westwood and Qualcast Tillers etc.??.

One fascination for me back in the days when I worked in the machinery world was puzzling out who actually made what machine....badge engineering was always done and often if you could trace things back it made the sourcing of spares more cost effective...other times not.....

These days I suspect there are even less actual manufacturers...and even more badges.

"Dori."