About us
Quality products and services since 1908
Our mission is to provide the Golf Courses and Turf Maintenance Industry with a "go to" company that takes care of all the sourcing of parts & equipment, even the hard-to-find items.
We have worked on large scale projects including retaining the Pretoria City Council contract for more than 20 years.
Following demand, we now specialize in the import & distribution of replacement spares for golf and turf machinery, as well as the sale of complete imported used units. Such as fairway mowers, greens mowers, rotary mowers and more.
Our Directing member Donovan Ritchie designed & patented an award winning reversible bottom blade for golf greens mowers that fits all the major brands. The blade was launched in 2020 and has continued to receive great reviews from all around the world.
Industrial Lawn Equipment now offers weekly air freight service for emergency golf and turf spares.
1908
Industrial Lawn Equipment is a 4th generation family business dating all the way back to 1908, when Robert John Fernihough opened a General Dealer (including a filling station) & Butchery known as Fernihoughs.
1950
Vincent Ritchie (son-in-law) joined the family business around 1950.
1962
This family business continued & in 1962 James Arthur Ritchie (son of Vincent) opened a vehicle repair business which became renowned in the Pretoria North area. Known as Fernihoughs Garage. As the clientele base grew from strength to strength, requests we made by customers to have their lawnmowers repaired.
1978
In 1978 the lawnmower spares & repair business was opened.
1984
In 1984, after his 2 year military service Donovan James Ritchie (son of James) started working for the family business & as his father was more interested in the motor industry he allocated the running of the Lawnmower Business to his son Donovan.
The Name was changed & Lawnmower City cc was born.
Within 10 years Lawnmower City expanded to include 3 branches in : Pretoria North, Pretoria East & Midrand.
1996
In 1996 we acquired the Distribution of SNAPPER for South Africa & introduced the Ride on Tractor Mowers & Zero Turn Mowers.
Donovan Ritchie decided to concentrate solely on the commercial lawn mower market & distribution of Snapper Mowers. Lawnmower City started trading as Industrial Lawn Equipment. We moved to Centurion where we owned a factory for 26 years, that included a fully functional workshop, showroom & stock from agencies all over the world.
Industrial Lawn Equipment became importers & distributors of Industrial & Commercial Lawn Mowers, supplying country wide.
2018
Following the demand for spares and machinery in the golf and turf industry the company started to shift focus to a more specialized field. Supplying and distributing spares for the golf course maintenance industry. After designing the patented reversible bottom blade, the Directing member Donovan Ritchie launches the reversible bottom blade in Orlando in 2020. Following several more golf shows introducing the reversible bottom blade we are now proudly supplying many golf courses all around the world including United Kingdom, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy and South Africa