Summary

Black and white photograph of Alex Paton, an employee at H.V McKay Massey Harris.

Located in Volume 3, "Miscellaneous: H.V. McKay Ballarat, Sunshine Factories & Products; Maps, Plans & Charts; Passport Photographs; 1904-1945", page 192. This volume is one of 25 'guard books' that document the history of the McKay enterprise from 1904 to 1960.

This image is part of the McKay Sunshine Collection which includes photographs, film, artefacts, oral histories, documents and trade literature relating to the H.V. McKay enterprise, which subsequently became Massey Ferguson (Aust.) Ltd, agricultural implement manufacturer, importer and distributor, Sunshine, Victoria.

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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Portrait of man wearing jacket, tie and shirt. He is seated in front of a wall.

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