![ROYAL SHOW MELBOURNE: 1911: [DISPLAY TITLE IN PHOTO: SUNSHINE MOTOR CARS PTY LTD.]](/content/media/4/10754-small.jpg)
Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 3: "Miscellaneous: H.V. McKay Ballarat, Sunshine Factories & Products; Maps, Plans & Charts; Passport Photographs; 1904-1945", page 5. 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
'Royal Show Melbourne: 1911: [display title in photo: Sunshine Motor Cars Pty Ltd.]' an American 'Overland' car is exhibited in front of the Sunshine motor cars stall at the Melbourne Show is for sale'with full equipment' at 275 pounds. The sign on the side of the building advertises Sheffield-Simplex and Lanchester motor cars.
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
Images & Image Making, Public Life & Institutions, Sustainable Futures, Transport
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Place & Date Depicted
Show Grounds, Flemington, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1911
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Brand Names
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Classification
Manufacturing & industry, Agricultural & horticultural equipment
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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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