Showing 350 items matching "tractor"
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Orbost & District Historical Societyscythe blade, late 19th - early 20th century
Scythes were used to manually mow wheat or grass. Scythes were used with a long sweeping movement which made them much less tiring for labourers to use than reaping hooks or sickles though they still involved great physical labour and considerable skill to perfect. Both hands were in use and the operator did not have to bend his back to reach down to the crop. On farms scythes were sharpened on a sandstone wheel mounted on an axle with a crank handle on one side. This was hand powered and used with water. Scythes were not used as often on farms after the mechanisation of harvesting. They were still used for cutting awkward shaped small plots and for opening a path for the tractors. This item is an example of a tool used by the early settlers of the Orbost district. An iron scythe blade, curved and tapered. There is no handle and the blade is rusted and pitted."ROSE"scythe tool agriculture rural -
Orbost & District Historical Societyscythe, early -mid 20th century
Scythes were used with a long sweeping movement which made them much less tiring for labourers to use than reaping hooks or sickles though they still involved great physical labour and considerable skill to perfect. Both hands were in use and the operator did not have to bend his back to reach down to the crop. Scythes were not used as often on farms after the mechanisation of harvesting. They were still used for cutting awkward shaped small plots and for opening a path for the tractors. This item is an example of a tool used by the early settlers of the Orbost district.A curved iron blade with one sharp edge. It is attached to a curved hollow handle with two extensions on one side where the scythe can be held by two hands.scythe agriculture tool -
Marysville & District Historical SocietyEphemera (Item) - Advertising brochure, Marysville Crystal Gardens & Shop, Unknown
An advertising brochure for Marysville Crystal Gardens and Shop in Victoria.An advertising brochure for Marysville Crystal Gardens and Shop in Victoria. Marysville House, home to Marysville Crystal Gardens and Shop was built by Arthur Dickinson as a guest house in the late 1920s, then added to in the late 1940s. It closed as a guest house in the late 1950s. The family catered for up to 40 guests at a time. It was also the family home and still is. After the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, it is now the only surviving, original guest house left in Marysville.crystal gardens, marysville, victoria, ferguson tractors, marysville house, arthur dickinson, guest house, 2009 black saturday bushfires -
Marysville & District Historical SocietyEphemera (Item) - Advertising brochure, Marysville Crystal Gardens & Shop, Unknown
An advertising brochure for Marysville Crystal Gardens and Shop in Victoria.An advertising brochure for Marysville Crystal Gardens and Shop in Victoria. Marysville House, home to Marysville Crystal Gardens and Shop was built by Arthur Dickinson as a guest house in the late 1920s, then added to in the late 1940s. It closed as a guest house in the late 1950s. The family catered for up to 40 guests at a time. It was also the family home and still is. After the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, it is now the only surviving, original guest house left in Marysville.crystal gardens, marysville, victoria, ferguson tractors, marysville house, arthur dickinson, guest house, 2009 black saturday bushfires -
Federation University Historical CollectionBook - Book - Scrapbook, Ballarat School of MInes: Scrapbook of Newspaper Cuttings, Book 10, January 1981 to June 1981
Collection of newspaper articles related to Ballarat School Of Mines.They cover activities and advertisements for staff. The papers concerned are The Courier, Ballarat, The Australian, The Age over the period of 13/01/1981 to 06/06/1981.Book with white cover, front, spiral bound. staffing advertisements, courses available, smb to run certificated courses on computers, new skills for a new era, annette chappell-lawrence, adult education programs, unemployment takes toll of unskilled in workforce, induction program for electrical apprentices at smb, business studies upgrade of typewriters, smb first country venue for sec distribution officers' training course, training of apprentices, move for school of traditional crafts, new plumbing/sheetmetal complex at smb, smb's land laboratory, lesley blanchard and nerida smith are commonwealth employment service success stories, ballarat city council defers smb request for funds, governor-general sir zelman cowan to open founders hall at bcae, concern at tafe expectations, 'great hall' has strong lines, hall achieves all that donors hoped, help with spelling problems, school transition group, ballarat special school, mary shone co-ordinator, 700 attend opening of founders hall, mittagundi outdoor program, education mission from china, tractor for smb farm course - international harvester, andrew hammond peter drake and tim murphy top motor mechanic apprentices, stuart harwood and john mitchell win australian welding institute awards, financial limits on tafe, students build in mud bricks, john michell wins engineering prize, smb wine appreciation workshop -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book - Book - Scrapbook, Ballarat School of MInes: Scrapbook of Newspaper Cuttings, Book 30, February 1987 to June 1987
Collection of newspaper articles related to Ballarat School Of Mines.They cover activities and advertisements for staff. The papers concerned are The Courier, Ballarat, The Australian, The Age over the period of 18 February 1987 to 6 May 1987.Book with Blue cover, front, spiral bound. teaching positions advertised, pre-employment courses, courses available, smb dressmaking student's banner, val d'angri teacher, lisay pither, melinda wyres, andrea vendy, jodie fletcher, begonia festival, trevor williams motor mechanic apprentice, top student, kerrie cross smb vice-president of council, tafe women's policy launch at smb, institute of professional secretaries branch, wendy ivanusec, allison lanigan, mollie peel, minister launches tafe women's policy at smb, indonesian educators visit smb, newsletter "network" launched by joan kirner and caroline hogg, liz gurrie a woman of many parts, women in early ballarat, alice cornwell alias princess midas, women's trade and technical program, margaret o'mara, tracey coleman, smb collection leads nation, aboriginal programs in equal opportunity, co-ordinator lily saylor, adult horticulture course, christine uptown, intriguing stories ballarat old cemetery, australian wheat board gives smb tractor, dr john sharphan next bcae head, smb helps small business, engines for training apprentices, the age of uncertainty, smb reopens its museum, lily saylor helps her people learn, smb plans to help its disabled students -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book - Book - Scrapbook, Ballarat School of MInes: Scrapbook of Newspaper Cuttings, Book 58, September 1993 to November 1993
Collection of newspaper articles related to Ballarat School Of Mines.They cover activities and advertisements for staff. The papers concerned are The Courier, Ballarat, The Australian, The Age over the period of 15 September 1993 to 27 November 1993.Book with yellow cover, front, spiral bound. teaching positions advertised, pre-employment courses, courses available, enrolment for smb courses, doug sarah, small business centre, association for the blind kelaston, three dimensional mural, nicky tolosa-millllard, funds if buc and smb merge, smb rejects merger, textile fashions on display, anna stewart, anne o'grady, full status as university, smb to keep identity, mabo law, indigineous people week, chairmate, stair climber, plaque for neville bunning, tony leonard prize winner, smb students build rotunda for show, buc tafe pathways project, aussiehost initiatives, trina hosking, fitter and turner apprentice, vegemite is 71, cyril callisterjohn harrison horticulture, jim mcculloch coppersmith, ceramics on show, robyn seals, ettamogah replica in cake, smb gets tractor for farming students -
Orbost & District Historical Societysickle, late 19th -early 20th century
A hand sickle is typically used for harvesting grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock (either freshly cut or dried as hay). this one was used for cutting back bracken fern.Sickles were not used as often on farms after the mechanisation of harvesting. They were still used for cutting awkward shaped small plots, for opening a path for the tractors and for clearing bracken. This item is an example of a tool used by the early settlers of the Orbost district.A wooden handled sickle used for fern cutting. It has a steel curved blade.Stamped on blade - RY4 MADE IN ENGLANDtool farming-implement sickle -
Monbulk RSL Sub BranchBook, Michael K Cecil, Australian Military Equipment Profiles: Field Artillery 1939-1945. 25 Pdr Gun, 25 Pdr Short Gun, Artillery Tractors No.3, 3A, 8,9, Artillery Trailer No. 27 Mk.1, 1992
Illustrative and textual description of Australian field artillery 1939-1945Ill, p.40non-fictionIllustrative and textual description of Australian field artillery 1939-1945military weapons - australia, weapons - australia -
Puffing Billy RailwayVehicle - Traction Engine - Foden Compound, 1914
Ordered by Langwill Bros., & Davies Ltd Melbourne Used for saw milling, dam constructions and log haulingFoden Traction Engine This engine is a compound traction engine built by Foden Ltd of Sandbach England in 1914 – builders number 4525. This was ordered by Langwill Bros and Davies Ltd of Melbourne and was used by Mr F Orr on his farm at Bullarto South Victoria. On the farm it was used for many agricultural purposes and was used at times as a stationary engine to run a wooden thrashing machine. The unit was last used on the farm in 1947 and put aside on the farm with a “museum” of other old agricultural tractors and machinery. Mr Orr gave us the engine as an exhibit for the Menzies Creek Museum of Puffing Billy in the 1960s. At that stage he was an elderly gentleman of 97 years and maintained a great interest in his farm which had been in his family’s hands for three generations at that stage. His grandfather had cut the farm from the bush. The traction engine in its youth was used to go around other farms in the district and went as far away as the Wimmera and Mallee farms thrashing crops of wheat, barley and oats. It towed the wooden thrashing machine behind it on its trips to these farms on hire to the farmers. Foden Compound Traction Engine Built by Foden Ltd., Sandback, England in 1914 to the order of Langwill Bros., & Davies Ltd., Melbourne, it was used on a farm for sawmilling, dam constructions and log hauling. Donated by F. Orr of Bullarto South, Victoria. Foden Compound Traction Engine - made of Steel (Painted)Foden foden, traction engine, steam, puffing billy -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Audio Tape, Alois Murr, 1981
Interview with Alois Murr, agricultural engineer, resident in Australia, interned Camp 1.Philips FS 90 audio tapetalk by alois murr, lanz tractor engineer, interned in australia, camp 1 -
Hume City Civic CollectionPhotograph
Chris. Christiansen had a barber shop in Sunbury and was the photographer in the town from 1895 until 1916. He conducted his business in a building situated on the corner of Evans and Brooks Streets. The Gillies Bridge is situated on the Wildwood Road, just off the Lancefield Road.A mounted sepia photograph of the Gillies Bridge at Sunbury. The mounting is cream with silver writing across the bottom of the photograph. There is a man driving a steam roller (traction engine) across the bridge and another man is standing at the bottom of the bridge on the RHS. The creek and rocks are in the foreground. Cream mounting - 2 cm wide with silver inscriptionsChristiansen / Sunbury Studiosgillies bridge, wildwood road, sunbury, bridges, steam rollers, bulldozers, tractors, christiansen, chris, photographers, george evans collection -
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Highett RSL Sub Branch IncPhotograph: Vermark Panser Unit WW1, Field Panzer Unit [Supply Tractors]
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Rutherglen Historical SocietyImage, 1890s
Black and white photograph of a threshing team at workagriculture, farming, harvest, steam tractor, wheat harvest, threshing -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Photograph (Item) - Photographs of various RAAF jeeps, trucks and tractors and their application roles
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Merbein District Historical Society
Drawing, Folio, Engineering Drawings, 1944-1949
agricultural equipment, industrial equipment, building industry, tractors, merbein co-op, implements, block equipment, williams & lawler, les stack, williams maurie -
Merbein District Historical Society
Journal - Quarterly, Merbein Historian - Quarterly Journal of MDHS - No 42 (2 copies), Dec.2010
mona adams, judi hyde, anne (fitzgerald) williams, eliza curtis, harry curtis, merbein higher elementary school staff 1958, merbein higher elementary school form 41958, pegler merbein early homes, edwin & mary (mcmahon) pegler, harry & jane pegler, matt & eliza mcmahon, peg hewson, merbein west primary school mother's club (early), rose mabel (hansen) burgess, robert & rita (miles) smith wedding, ivan & lynette (sporn) cole wedding, langwell station , bert curtis, steel mule langwell station, mdhs trip langwell station , ernest neile jenner - death, percy jenner, lindsay jenner - tractor, mark (cr) eckel., bernadette wells, a self drive tour of historic sites - buildings - places of interest, hazel dowsley, merbein higher elementary school staff 1958, mavis mary bennett, jack bennett -
Wangaratta RSL Sub BranchModel - Minature Model Aircraft
Sopwith Seaplane. One of a collection of 25 model aircraft made by Brian Anthony DOWD The Sopwith Baby was a British single-seat tractor seaplane used by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) from 1915.Small yellow & khaki plane with two wings on top of each other. Blue, white & red star on top with skis instead of wheels. 2 on sides.model airplanes, sopwith seaplane -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - CAC tractors vehicles hangar design code NFPA 409 catering dolly conveyors, CAC ground support equipment
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Emerald Museum & Nobelius Heritage ParkMachine - Chaff cutter, Bentalls, 1913
Chaff cutter. Bentall - 1913. Used to cut straw or hay into small pieces before being mixed together with other forage and fed to horses and cattle. Used on a small mixed farm in Emerald originally purchased by C. T. Alexander in 1920.A chaff cutter was an essential piece of equipment in early farms - of which there were many in the Emerald area - which were highly dependent on horsepower for agricultural work until the widespread use of tractors in the second half of the twentieth century.Chaff cutter with cast iron frame containing two sets of teeth which are connected to gears which are connected to a large wheel operated by hand. Missing from this particular chaff cutter are the cover for the gears, part of the handle, and the wooden chute into which the stalks were fed.Embossed on main chassis: 'BENTALL'S IMPROVED CHAFF CUTTER / 1913 / MALDON ENGLAND'. Embossed on wheel: 'BENTALL'S HEYBRIDGE MALDON ENGLAND / 1382'. Embossed on cover over feeder teeth: 'CDC BENTALL'. Embossed on feeder entrance: '947'.alexander, emerald, chaff cutter, early 20th century, bentall, agricultural machinery
