Summary

Promotional flyer published in 1940 publicising H.V McKay Massey Harris' Sunfeed Grinding Mill. "Every dairy, pig, and poultry farmer should possess a Sunfeed Grinding Mill" asserts this promotional flyer. Advertising the small, low priced machine is a photograph depicting the machine, grinding plates and the included two spanners. Requiring a 2-4 hp engine, suggestive selling is evident with the reference to the Sundial Engine that would be "ideal for the purpose".

Part of a collection of photographs, negatives, moving film, artefacts, documents and trade literature belonging to the H. V. McKay Sunshine Collection. The McKay collection is regarded as one of the most significant industrial heritage collections in Australia. The collection relates to the agricultural manufacturing firm, the Sunshine Harvester Works. The Australian operations of this company were originally founded by Hugh V. McKay in the 1890s in Ballarat. Between 1906 and 1907, McKay moved production to Sunshine where the firm became one of the largest industrial businesses in Australia. Change in ownership is a recurring theme in the company's history. In 1930, it merged with Massey-Harris to become H.V McKay Massey Harris. In the mid-1950s, the company was absorbed by Canadian agricultural firm Massey-Ferguson. Production in Sunshine ceased in the mid-1980s, following almost 100 years of manufacturing agricultural equipment.

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'MORE VALUE FROM GRAIN! WATCH THE STOCKTHRIVE WHEN FED ON GRAIN GROUND WITH A..SUNFEED GRINDING MILL' L375, 8797, Rm, 140.

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