Photograph - H.V. McKay Massey Harris, Farm Equipment Manufacture & Field Trials, circa 1930s-1940s

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Summary:: Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 5: 'Tractors, Engines, Sprayers and Chaffcutters: 1918-1956', page 135. 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.
Description Of Content:: Diagrams of the 'Perkins' combustion system taken from the workshop manual.

Discipline:

Technology

Tagged with:	engines
Themes this item is part of:	H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection, Engineering Collection, Images & Image Making Collection
Primary Classification:	AGRICULTURE & RURAL LIFE
Secondary Classification:	Images (To Be Classified)
Tertiary Classification:	images (to be classified)
Original Caption:	'AEROFLOW' SYSTEM OF COMBUSTION
Inscriptions:	Stamp 1: August 1949.
Format:	Photograph: Black & White
Date Made:	Aug 1949
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