 Two of the first machines went to Regent's Park Zoological Gardens in London and the Oxford Colleges. Mr. Curtis, the foreman at Regent's Park, said of the machine, it does as much work as six or eight men with scythes and brooms, performing the whole so perfectly as not to leave a mark of any kind. Budding went into partnership with a local engineer and manufactured his device, selling around 1,000 of his machines in the 1830s.