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Wolsely Sheep Shearing Machine Company Pty Ltd (1889 - )

Function: Manufacturing Industry and Agricultural Industry

Location: Australia

In the late 1860s Frederick York Wolseley, after working on various Victorian sheep stations, successful developed a shearing machine. He returned to England in 1889 and established the Wolsely Sheep Shearing Machine Company Pty Ltd.

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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/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=A000193. [ Details ]

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