Photograph - H.V. McKay Pty Ltd, Farm Equipment Manufacture & Field Trials, Melbourne, Victoria, Apr 1923

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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 16. 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:: 7 h.p. locomotive at the Melbourne Zoo. (The engine and carriages were made at the Sunshine factory.) (note the elephant, Queenie, in the background!).

Discipline:

Technology

Tagged with:	drivers, elephants, engines, machines, workers, zoos
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:	PHOTO TAKEN APRIL 1923: LOCO (7 H.P. ENGINE) AT ZOO
Format:	Photograph: Black & White
Place & Date Depicted:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Apr 1923
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