Summary

Merger of the Australian interests of the Canadian firm Massey Harris and H.V. McKay Pty Ltd. In 1955 Massey Harris purchased the McKay family interests in the business and the company was renamed.

Related entries

Timeline

 1921 - 1930s H.V. McKay Pty Ltd
       1930s - 1955 H.V. McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd
             1955 - 1958 Massey Harris Ferguson Limited
                   1958 - 1992 Massey Ferguson (Australia) Limited
                         1992 - 1994 Massey Ferguson Iseki Australia Limited
                                AGCO Australia Limited

Archival resources

University of Melbourne Archives

• HV McKay Pty Ltd and successors archival records, 1958 - 2001, Acc No 2004.0012; University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• HV McKay Pty Ltd and successors archival records, 1899 - 1939, Acc No 1963.0018; University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• The Story of seventy years development of one of Australia's great industries, Sunshine Harvester Press, Sunshine, Victoria, 1954, 30 pp. Details
• Arnold, Ken, Sunshine Harvester Works: Hugh V. McKay an agricultural icon, Crown Castleton Publishers, Bendigo, Victoria, 2005, 84 pp. Details
• Faulkner, R., Duty nobly done : Sunshine Harvester diary, Melbourne's Living Museum of the West, Footscray, Victoria, 1986, 86 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Fahey, Charles and Lack, John, 'Working at Sunshine: A Case Study of the Recruitment and Retention of Labour in a Melbourne Manufacturing Enterprise, 1946-63', Labour History, no. 90, 2006. Details
• Morrow, Dan, ''Forging, Ahead': Industry and Environmental Transformation in a Melbourne Suburb 1906-85', Australian Ecomonic History Review, vol. 52, no. 2, 2012, pp. 148-166. Details