Hope it's not a violation of etiquette or rules to post a few more pics here. Since there's very little information available online, I thought adding anything at all might help someone someday. I did some digging through the archives at Newspapers.com and found several examples of this mower (though not identified by model number) in ads from the mid-'40s into the very early '50s. While there were text ads mentioning a David Bradley horse-drawn mower in the late '30s, the first picture ad I found was from the Salt Lake [i:6b7e65db79]Tribune[/i:6b7e65db79] on September 26, 1945:
The Harrisburg (PA) [i:6b7e65db79]Evening News[/i:6b7e65db79] had this ad on November 5, 1946:
This ad is from the Shreveport [i:6b7e65db79]Times[/i:6b7e65db79] on July 11, 1947:
There was a helluva sale in the Minneapolis Sunday [i:6b7e65db79]Tribune[/i:6b7e65db79] a couple years later (July 10, 1949):
Here it is in a full-page Sears Farm Store ad from the May 1, 1950, Danville (VA) [i:6b7e65db79]Bee[/i:6b7e65db79]:
Things seemed to be winding down by 1951, with far fewer newspaper ads, such as this one in the August 23rd Greenville (SC) [i:6b7e65db79]News[/i:6b7e65db79]:
Most mentions by this time were in classified ads and auction notices. In 1952, there were a few ads scattered across the country, including this one from the June 24th edition of the Green Bay (WI) [i:6b7e65db79]Press-Gazette[/i:6b7e65db79], in which it didn't even merit a picture in this factory clearance ad promising that "Sears has a 15 Year Supply of Spare Parts for these David Bradley Implements."
By 1953, sales of new equipment seemed to come to an end, with the April 5th Louisville (KY) [i:6b7e65db79]Courier-Journal[/i:6b7e65db79] advertising it at $70 off the normal price, and an Asheville (NC) [i:6b7e65db79]Citizen-Times[/i:6b7e65db79] on May 22nd advertising an optimistic price of only $46 off "Priced Without Tires," the last two picture ads in the Newspapers.com archives: