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 107. 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
A Massey Harris 'Pacemaker' tractor set up to be driven by remote control from the header by means of extended steering wheel and ropes attached for clutch and brake operation. In the background is a huge set of stump jump harrows showing half of the wheels and the means by which the pull was ...
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Place & Date Depicted
Royal Show Grounds, Flemington, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1938
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Inscriptions
See also Image: MM 17787. Stamped: H.V. McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd, Sunshine.
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Classification
Agriculture & rural life, Crop management - harvesting, Header harvesters
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Discipline
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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, Agricultural Shows, Royal Melbourne Show, Tractors
