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Photograph - H.V. McKay, Farm Equipment Manufacture & Field Trials, Flemington, Victoria, 1911 Image Reg. No: MM 017346

ROYAL SHOW MELBOURNE: 1911: [DISPLAY TITLE IN PHOTO: SUNSHINE MOTOR CARS PTY LTD.]
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 5. 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:
'Royal Show Melbourne: 1911: [display title in photo: Sunshine Motor Cars Pty Ltd.]' an American 'Overland' car is exhibited in front of the Sunshine motor cars stall at the Melbourne Show is for sale'with full equipment' at 275 pounds. The sign on the side of the building advertises Sheffield-Simplex and Lanchester motor cars.
Discipline: Technology

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Tagged with: agricultural shows, exhibitions, motor cars, workers
Themes this item is part of: H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection, Images & Image Making Collection, Public Life & Institutions Collection, Sustainable Futures Collection, Transport Collection
Primary Classification: AGRICULTURE & RURAL LIFE
Secondary Classification: Images (To Be Classified)
Tertiary Classification: images (to be classified)
Original Caption: ROYAL SHOW MELBOURNE: 1911: [DISPLAY TITLE IN PHOTO: SUNSHINE MOTOR CARS PTY LTD.]
Format: Photograph: Black & White
Place & Date Depicted: Flemington, Victoria, Australia, 1911
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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