Since inventing the hover mower more than 40 years ago Flymo have become market leaders in the design and innovation of unique gardening products that make gardening easy.

1959 Christopher Cockerell's Hovercraft invention has its final trial run.

1964 Karl Dahlman's hover mower wins gold medal at the Brussels Inventors Fair.

1965 Production of the world's first hover mower starts at Newton Aycliffe. Flymo Founded.

1969 Flymo becomes part of Electrolux and launch world's first electric hover mower.

1977 Flymo goes "Orange".

1978 Flymo introduce and patent the world's first grass collecting hover mower.

1982 Queen's Award for Export.

1983 Queen's Award for Technology.

1988 Flymo Multi Trim, the first two-in-one trimmer and lawn edger on the market is launched.

1989 Flymo move to purpose built factory and become the UK's leading lawnmover brand.

1993 Flymo launch GardenVac, a unique multi-purpose garden tidy tool.

1994 Flymo launch and TV advertise the Unique Turbo Compact.

2000 Flymo sell 1 million products in the UK market.