Photograph - H.V. McKay Massey Harris, Farm Equipment Manufacture & Field Trials, 1941

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Summary:: Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 3: "Miscellaneous: H.V. McKay Ballarat, Sunshine Factories & Products; Maps, Plans & Charts; Passport Photographs; 1904-1945", page 131. This is one of 25 albums that provide detailed visual documentation of the activities of the McKay enterprise.

This image forms part of the extensive McKay Sunshine collection which includes images, film, objects, trade publications and oral histories.

Discipline:

Technology

Tagged with:	armoured vehicles, firearms, steam traction engines
Themes this item is part of:	H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection, Arms Collection, Engineering Collection, Images & Image Making Collection, Transport Collection
Primary Classification:	AGRICULTURE & RURAL LIFE
Secondary Classification:	Images (To Be Classified)
Tertiary Classification:	images (to be classified)
Original Caption:	BREN-GUN CARRIER: SEPT 1941
Inscriptions:	Do not hold neg. Stamped: "21 SEP 1942" "1082" "20 OCT 1941" "3337" "PAGE 131"
Format:	Photograph: Black & White
Date Made:	Sep 1941
References:	http://museumvictoria.com.au/sunshine. Viewed 7.5.09. http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100286b.htm. Viewed 7.5.09. Perry, Warren. 'The Science Museum of Victoria'.
Bibliography:	[Chapter] Dale-Hallett, Liza, et al. 'The McKay Collection', in Rasmussen, Carolyn. A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria. p.271-273., 2001 [Article] 2003. "Resurrecting the Sunshine Harvester Works: Re-presenting and Reinterpreting the Experience of Industrial Work in Twentieth-Century Australia", Labour History., 2003 [Article] Dale-Hallett, Liza. 2004. "Collecting by Stealth: the HV McKay Collection", Museum Victoria Magazine., 2004