Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No.1: 'Views of Factories and Branches', page 136. 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
Photo shows workers in the fitting assembly shop, making various parts for the ploughs. (Note: guards have been fitted to the drive belts and to the grinder; and duckboards for the workers to stand on.)
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
Images & Image Making, Sustainable Futures, Working Life & Trades
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Place & Date Depicted
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Inscriptions
Stamped: "H.V. MCKAY MASSEY HARRIS PTY LTD SUNSHINE HARVESTER WORKS, SUNSHINE, W.20. MAY 1955". Stamp 2: "MAY 1955" "PLOUGH FITTERS, NO. 3".
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Type of item
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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
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Keywords
Agricultural Equipment Components, Equipment Manufacturing, Factories, Fitters, Manufacturing Workers, Occupational Health & Safety
