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McKay, Hugh Victor (1865 - 1926)

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Born: 21 August 1865 Raywood, Victoria, Australia. Died: 21 May 1926 Sunbury, Victoria, Australia.

Hugh Victor McKay patented his stripper-harvester in 1885. In 1893 he started The Harvester Company (later the Sunshine Harvester Works), built an improved harvester and marketed it as the "Sunshine".

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Museum Victoria, The Sunshine Harvester Works: Welcome to the Sunshine Harvester web site, Museum Victoria, 1999, http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/sunshine/index.htm. [ Details ]

See Also

Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P003767. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001
Modified: 2 August 2006

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