Person

McKay, Hugh Victor (1865 - 1926)

Born
21 August 1865
Raywood, Victoria, Australia
Died
21 May 1926
Sunbury, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Manufacturer

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".

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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. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100286b.htm. Details

Conference Papers

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

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
  • 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

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