Item MM 16555 Photograph - Flower Bed at H.V McKay Memorial Gardens, Sunshine, Victoria, Apr 1935

Summary

Black and white photograph of a flower bed in the H.V McKay Memorial Gardens.

Part of a collection of photographs, moving film, artefacts, documents and trade literature relating to Massey Ferguson (Aust.) Ltd and its predecessors. The Australian operations of this company were originally founded by Hugh V. McKay, at Ballarat, in the late 1880s, and by 1895 was operating as the Sunshine Harvester Works. After relocating to Braybrook Junction (later renamed 'Sunshine') on the western outskirts of Melbourne, during 1904-1907, the business rapidly developed into the largest agricultural implement works in the southern hemisphere. In 1930, H.V. McKay merged with the Australian operations of the Canadian firm, Massey Harris Ltd, of Toronto, becoming H.V. McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd. In 1955, this company was fully absorbed into the growing multinational corporation that became Massey Ferguson Ltd in 1958.

Photograph is located in an album: Volume No.1: 'Views of Factories and Branches', page 162. This is one of 25 albums that provide detailed visual documentation of the activities of the McKay enterprise.