"A century of farmyard relics in Australia : 1840-1940" is the latest production by Ken Arnold.
Famous for his earlier books on old bottles, Australian tools, Victorian demijohns and more, Ken has out-done himself with this huge 5 volume epic (over 3,000 pages in total).
Volume 1 covers windmills and water related, grubbers, fencing and strainers, manures, sprays, poisons and bait, rabbit traps, skins, buggies, buggy plates, wagons, carts, blacksmith and wheelwrights. Volume 2: dips and drenches, shearing machines and handpieces, wool presses, caring for animals, saddles, harnesses, collars, cans, milking machines, separators and churns. Volume 3: old stationary portable and traction engines, old tractors, saws and saw benches, chain saws, for the smithy, old tools and spanners, old makers plates and plaques. Volume 4: the machinery manufacturers. Volume 5: machinery manufacturers and machinery agents.
The machinery book mentions many of the local agricultural machinery manufacturers : Beard & Sisson, Ackland, May & Millar, Petschel & Brothers, Promnitz, Petschel, Arthur Wallis, James Elsden, E.F. Gersch, Rawling & Co, Braybook & Dimboola Implement Works, etc.
It is also complemented with advertising bills, and photographs some historic and some taken by Ken at agricultural museums, so photos taken at Patchewollock, Jeparit, Rupanyup and Warracknabeal are dotted through it.
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