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'
More Information
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Collection Names
Various Donors Trade Literature Collection, H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection, Old McKay Archive (Series A)
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Donation & Subsequent Transfer from Mr Don McKay, Old McKay Archives, Science & Technology Collection, Museum Victoria, 11 Oct 1960
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Manufacturer/Distributor
Hugh V. McKay, Sunshine Harvester Works, Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
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Publication Date
1922 circa
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Printer
D.W. Paterson Co. Pty. Ltd., 495 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1920-1930
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Manufacturer of Item Depicted
H.V. McKay Pty Ltd, Devonshire Road, Sunshine, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1921-1936
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Inventor of Item Depicted
Mr Headlie S. Taylor, Henty, Riverina, New South Wales, Australia, circa 1911-1914
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Inscriptions
Front cover reads: "The Sunshine/ Header Harvester". Page one reads: "H.V. McKay Pty Ltd/ Sunshine Harvester Works, Sunshine/ near Melbourne, Australia/ Manufacturers of/ Farm Machinery and Engines/ Branch Offices and Showrooms:/ Stanley Street, Sth Brisbane,/ Queensland./Telegrams: "Sunshine, Brisbane"/ 27-29 George Street West, Sydney, New South Wales/Telegrams: "Sunshine, Sydney"/ 607 Collins Street West,/ Melbourne, Victoria./Telegrams: "Sunshine, Melbourne"/ 102-105 North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia./ Telegrams: "Sunshine, Adelaide"/ 36 Pier Street, Perth, West/ Australia/ Telegrams: "Sunshine, Perth"/ York and St John Streets,/ Launceston, Tasmania/ Telegrams: "Sunshine, Launceston". "The Sunshine Harvester Works occupy 25 acres of buildings, replete with the most modern plant obtainable for the manufacture of Agricultural Implements and Engines...". "Address for overseas cables: "Sunshine, Melbourne"/ Bentley's code". Each even page has the following footer: "H.V. McKay Pty Ltd". Each odd page has the following footer: "Sunshine Harvester Works, Sunshine".
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Brand Names
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Number of Pages
34
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Page Size Format
185 x 240 mm
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Primary Subject
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Illustration Types
Black & White; Colour; Line Drawings; Photographs; Factory Views; Instructional Drawings
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Printing Types
Full Colour
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Publication Types
Publicity Brochure, Descriptive Booklet, Specific Product Catalogue
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Classification
Agriculture & rural life, Crop management - harvesting, Header harvesters
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Overall Dimensions
184 (Width), 3 (Depth), 240 (Height)
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Keywords
Header Harvesters, Agricultural & Farming Organisations, Agriculture, Farming Methods