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

The core values at the heart of everything we do at Fl. are ‘quick and easy’. Quick at completing garden tasks. Easy in being intuitive to use.

• 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

  Fl. is founded with the production of the world’s first hover mower at Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, England.

• 1969

  Fl. becomes part of the Electrolux Group and launch the world’s first electric hover mower.

• 1977

  Fl. products take on their distinctive orange colour.

• 1978

  Fl. introduce and patent the world’s first grass collecting hover mower.

• 1982

  Queen’s Award for Export.

• 1983

  Another Queen’s Award for Technology.

• 1988

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

• 1989

  Fl. move to purpose built factory at Newton Aycliffe, England and become the UK’s leading lawnmover brand.

• 1993

  Fl. launch the GardenVac, a unique multi-purpose garden tidy tool.

• 1994

  Fl. launch and TV advertise the Unique Turbo Compact.

• 2000

  Fl. sell 1 million products in the UK market.