Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 5: 'Tractors, Engines, Sprayers and Chaffcutters: 1918-1956', page 2. 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
'1919'. A freshly painted early Model O steel-wheeled tractor photographed in the Sunshine factory. Note the crank handle for starting the engine and the flat-belt drive-pulley for powering various stationary farm implements such as chaffcutters, saws, threshers, elevators, etc. Note the linework on wheel guards and engine cover.
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Place & Date Depicted
2 Devonshire Road, Sunshine, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1919
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Inscriptions
Original caption in album: '1919'
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Model Name or Number
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Brand Names
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Classification
Manufacturing & industry, Agricultural & horticultural equipment, Tractors
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Category
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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, Factories, Machines, Tractors, Workers
