Summary
A typewritten letter from Hedderwick Fookes & Alston to C. N. McKay of H. V. McKay Massey Harris Pty. Ltd., dated 4th June 1953.
The letter provides a legal opinion on the provisions of an Agreement dated 30th August 1930 between H. V. McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd and the Massey Harris Company Limited.
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.
Physical Description
Three sheets of translucent off-white paper. Extensive typewritten text in black ink. Red ink stamped text on each page.
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Mrs. Cecil Newton McKay (nee Shaw), University of Melbourne Archives (The)
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Ink stamped: ' COPY ' First page, handwritten, blue ink: ' G 1.4 ' First page, typewritten: ' 4th June, 53. / S. / C.N. McKay, Esq., / H. V. McKay Massey Harris Pty. Ltd., / Devonshire Road, / SUNSHINE. / Dear Sir, / re Massey-Harris Company Ltd. / As arranged we have reviewed the provisions of the / agreement of 30th August 1930 between your Company and Massey-/ Harris Company Ltd. Many of the provisions of the agreement / have been carried into effect long since and accordingly have no / further force. Our comments are confined to those provisions which are still in operation and they are as follows:- ' [Further text]
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Manufacturing & industry, Agricultural & horticultural equipment, Agreements & legal contracts
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Overall Dimensions
204 mm (Width), 262 mm (Height)
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