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Photograph - H.V. McKay Massey Harris, Farm Equipment Manufacture & Field Trials, Sunshine, Victoria, Sep 1938 Image Reg. No: MM 016247

"ENGINE WORKS: SEPT. 1938"
Summary:
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No.1: 'Views of Factories and Branches', page 48. 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:
Production machining on a 'Herbert' turret lathe, of gear blanks from forgings. The forgings (rough castings) can be seen in the lower right, and part-machined gear blanks on the left. Note the machinist is standing on duckboards (wooden slats), an occupa.
Discipline: Technology

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Tagged with: engines, equipment manufacturing, factories, occupational health safety, workers
Themes this item is part of: H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection, Engineering Collection, Images & Image Making Collection, Working Life & Trades Collection
Primary Classification: MANUFACTURING & INDUSTRY
Secondary Classification: Images (To Be Classified)
Tertiary Classification: images (to be classified)
Original Caption: 'ENGINE WORKS: SEPT. 1938'
Format: Photograph: Black & White
Place & Date Depicted: Sunshine, Victoria, Australia, Sep 1938
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:
  1. [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
  2. [Article] 2003. "Resurrecting the Sunshine Harvester Works: Re-presenting and Reinterpreting the Experience of Industrial Work in Twentieth-Century Australia", Labour History., 2003
  3. [Article] Dale-Hallett, Liza. 2004. "Collecting by Stealth: the HV McKay Collection", Museum Victoria Magazine., 2004

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