Summary

Illustrated booklet released to promote the recently rebranded "Sunshine" Header Harvester, which would become the Sunshine Harvester Works biggest selling farming machinery product during the 1920s, surpassing the dominant market share held by the older style "Sunshine" Stripper Harvesters during previous decades. Invented by Headlie Shipard Taylor, of Henty, New South Wales, before WWI and originally known as the H.S. Taylor Reaper-Thrasher, the new type of harvester was first produced in volume as the "Sunlight" Header Harvester by the Sunshine Harvester Works between 1917 and 1921, after H.V. McKay acquired the patent rights from the inventor and engaged him as an expert to oversee conversion of the prototype into a production design.

Content of booklet includes: foreword, method of working, detailed description of construction and working components. Each page has a photograph at the top illustrating the machine at work in a variety of situations.

Triplicate copy of same publication as TL 015188.

Physical Description

Sub quarto-sized staple-bound booklet, titled "The SUNSHINE Header Harvester". 32 pages, photographs and line drawings. Front cover illustrated with coloured drawing of the Header Harvester. Inside front cover: photograph of the Sunshine Header Harvester or Reaper Thrasher. Back cover: photograph showing rear view of the Header Harvester in a crop. Inside back cover: photograph showing front view of the Header Harvester in a crop, labelled "A Heavy Crop and an Eager Team".

Title

'The SUNSHINE Header Harvester'

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