Machine team is harvesting history

Bernard Humphreys

FEW Australian workers of the 20th century would have known they were reaping the rewards of an idea sown by the quest for a fair and reasonable living wage. Having invented the Sunshine Harvester, a labour-saving machine for farmers, north-west of Melbourne in 1885, industrialist Hugh Victor McKay built a hugely successful business, but that […]

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