McKay, Hugh Victor (1865 - 1926)

Summary

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".

Related entries

Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

• International Harvester Co. Aust. Pty. Ltd. - Records, 1899 - 1936, 63/18; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Dale. Liza, 'The McKay Collection' in A Museum for the people: a History of Museum Victoria and its predecessor institutions, 1854-2000, Rasmussen, Carolyn, ed. (Carlton North, Vic.: Scribe Publications, 2001), pp. 271-3. Details
• Lack, John, 'McKay, Hugh Victor (1865-1926), manufacturer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 291-294. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mckay-hugh-victor-699. Details

Conference Papers

• Hallett, M.L., 'The Sunshine Model 'A' Tractor', in Conference on agricultural engineering 1988: an Australasian conference to celebrate the Australian Bicentennial (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1988), pp. 21-23., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.660296009689999. Details
• Hallett, Martin, 'The Objects of Science and Technology - Working with "Things"', in Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 edited by Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton (Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995), pp. 87-93., https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/hallett.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Lack, John, 'The Legend of H. V. McKay', Victorian Historical Journal, 61 (2-3) (1990), 124-157. Details
• Westmore, Peter, 'Australian Industry: the Case of Sunshine Harvester', News Weekly, 2418 (1993), 12-14. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5932959. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94598976. Details
• Churchward, Matthew Spencer; Milner, Peter, 'Vol.1, p.98', The principal engineering establishments in Victoria in the period 1842 - 1945, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 1988. Details
• The Sunshine Harvester Works: Welcome to the Sunshine Harvester web site, Museum Victoria, 1999, http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/sunshine/index.htm. Details
• 'McKay, H V. (18650821-19260521)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-624550. 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_m.html. Details
• Cavill, A. R., 'Melbourne's H. V. McKay Planetarium', Journal of the Astronomical Society of Victoria, 21 (1968), 95-100. Details
• Ingpen, Robert, Australian inventions and innovations (Rigby Publishers Limited, 1982), 80 pp. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia. Sydney Division. Engineering Heritage Committee, The Historic Engineering Plaques of Australia (Milsons Point, New South Wales: The Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1994), 38 pp. p.19. McKay Smithy, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC. Details
• Palmer, Vance, National portraits (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1960), 230 pp. Details
• Quick, G.R., 'Two hundred years of grain harvesting', in Conference on agricultural engineering 1988: an Australasian conference to celebrate the Australian Bicentennial, (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1988), pp. 14-16., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.660258743747482. Details
• Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details