Person
Taylor, Headlie Shipard (1883 - 1957)
- Born
- 7 July 1883
Bungowannah, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 22 March 1957
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Agricultural engineer
Summary
Headlie Taylor was an agricultural machinery designer who worked for H.V. McKay (later H.V. McKay Massey Harris) from 1914-1954. His major inventions were a header harvester in 1914 and the 'Sunshine' auto-header, the first self-propelled harvester to be manufactured in large numbers, in 1924.
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Born 7 July 1883. Died 22 March 1957. Invented a header harvester 1914, the 'Sunshine' auto-header. Supervisor of production of the header for H.V. McKay from 1916, retired in 1954 as superintendent of agricultural machinery works, H V McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd.
Published resources
Book Sections
- Hallett, M. L., 'Taylor, Headlie Shipard (1883-1957), Agricultural Machinery Designer' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 12 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 180-181. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120199b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Doring, Carl and Doring, Margret, '100 years of the Header Harvester: Headlie S. Taylor builds the first header harvester in his farm blacksmith shop', Engineering Heritage Australia magazine, 1 (5) (2014), 6-10, https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/Learned%20Society/eha%20magazine%20vol%201%20no%205%20December%202014.pdf. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22810758. Details
- 'Taylor, Headlie Shipard (1883-1957)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1465319. 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/index_t.html. Details
- Engineers Australia ed., Wonders never cease: 100 Australian engineering achievements (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2019), 236 pp. p.143. Details
- Engineers Australia ed., Anything is possible: 100 Australian engineering leaders (Barton, A.C.T.: Institution of Engineers Australia, 2019), 136 pp. 'A Head for Production - Headlie Taylor' p.36. Details
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Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 5 March 2018
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