Physical description

Aerial view of HV McKay Massey Harris Factory

Inscriptions & markings

Aerial view of HV McKay Massey Harris Factory building administration office and Sunshine including Sunshine Gardens and gardeners residence This photograph shows many other points of historical nature

Top Left

1 Storage shed stacks of timber air drying

2 Old clock tower and new factory office block

3 Main or head office block opposite clock tower Then along Devonshire Road Adjacent to Head Office new drawing office on 1st floor over new workshop for experimental department These two later amalgamated and formed what became known as The Engineering Department

Right Centre

4 on both sides of Devonshire Road

5 State Savings Bank before rebuilding

6 Blair Athol guesthouse with National Bank on ground floor opposite State Savings Bank

7 Along Hampshire away from Blair Athol some houses then McKays laboratory Duplicates department Service Street Morgue Steel Storage and Pickling Annex and Roberts Quarry and some houses in background top right

Top Left to Right

8 In front of timber stacks Stony Creek winds through factory site to dam fire fighting before running under Hampshire Road in front of Annexe and Quarry across Service Street Creek was diverted through a channel and tunnel not shown

Also Railway lines to Bendigo and Mildura show McKays railway engine hauling trucks from factory