Abstract: Provided for controlling the traction drive of a lawn and garden tractor is a vehicle clutch and brake control that includes a hand-operated linkage for selectively shifting a first locking pawl for locking a brake pedal of the control in an engaged parking mode. Connected to the first locking pawl is an interlock member whch is operative to control a second locking pawl for holding the clutch pedal in a position for disengaging the power to the traction drive of the tractor when the first locking pawl is actuated for locking the brake pedal in its engaged parking mode.

Abstract: A lawn and garden tractor includes an air cooled engine which is enclosed by structure including a hood and opposite side panels. The engine is of a type including a heat shroud for directing cooling air about cooling fins of the engine head, the shroud having a top wall provided with an air intake opening located above a blower or fan of the engine. The hood and opposite side panels cooperate to define air inlet openings at opposite sides of the enclosure, the openings being located at a level above the top wall of the shroud. A deflector or baffle member is provided for preventing hot air exiting from the shroud from recirculating through the intake opening of the shroud.