Summary

Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 13: "Engineering Design: July 1949-March1956", page 27. This is one of 25 albums that provide detailed visual documentation of the activities of the McKay enterprise.

This image forms part of the extensive McKay Sunshine collection which includes images, film, objects, trade publications and oral histories.

Description of Content

'Dec 1950' a 'Nuffield' tractor fitted with a'Perkins' engine, showing the tractor hitch and power-take-off unit.

More Information

  • Collection Names

    H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection

  • Collecting Areas

    Sustainable Futures

  • Date Made

    Dec 1950

  • Format

    Photograph, Black & White

  • Inscriptions

    Stamped: "H.V. McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd, Sunshine, Dec 1950"

  • Classification

    Manufacturing & industry, Agricultural & horticultural equipment, Tractors

  • Category

    History & Technology

  • Discipline

    Technology

  • Type of item

    Image

  • References

    [Link 1] Viewed 7.5.09. [Link 2] Viewed 7.5.09. Perry, Warren. 'The Science Museum of Victoria'.
    [Article] Dale-Hallett, Liza, et al. 'The McKay Collection', in Rasmussen, Carolyn. A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria and its predecesors, 1854-2000. pp.271-273., 2001
    [Article] 2003. "Resurrecting the Sunshine Harvester Works: Re-presenting and Reinterpreting the Experience of Industrial Work in Twentieth-Century Australia", Labour History., 2003
    [Article] Dale-Hallett, Liza. 2004. "Collecting by Stealth: the HV McKay Collection", Museum Victoria Magazine., 2004

  • Keywords

    Agricultural Equipment