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Photograph - H.V. McKay, Farm Equipment Manufacture & Field Trials, Sunshine, Victoria, 1919 Image Reg. No: MM 018939

1919
Summary:
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 5: 'Tractors, Engines, Sprayers and Chaffcutters: 1918-1956', page 2. 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:
'1919' an early Model O steel-wheeled tractor photographed in the Sunshine factory. Note the crank handle for starting the engine and the flat-belt drive-pulley for powering various stationary farm implements, e.g. Chaff cutters, saws, threshers, elevators, .
Discipline: Technology

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Tagged with: agricultural equipment, factories, machines, tractors, workers
Themes this item is part of: H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection, Sustainable Futures Collection, Working Life & Trades Collection
Primary Classification: MANUFACTURING & INDUSTRY
Secondary Classification: Agricultural & Horticultural Equipment
Tertiary Classification: images (to be classified)
Original Caption: 1919
Format: Photograph: Black & White
Place & Date Depicted: Sunshine, Victoria, Australia, 1919
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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