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Demonstration of First Shearing Machinery, Queensland. c1885
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Brisbane Courier
Mon 10 Oct 1887
The Wolseley Shearing Machine at Work
On 9th September last the Wolseley sheep shearing machine was started at work in Messrs. Wallance and Casey’s shed at Normanby, and with the exception of Sundays, it has been daily at work ever since. This is the first extended trial to which the machine has been submitted, all previous ones having merely been public trials carried out under the direction of the inventor.
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As it is now, the men as they get accustomed to it are gradually overtaking the tallies of the shearers on the other side of the shed. On Wednesday last the writer timed one of the shearers, Charles Shepherd, an Ipswich resident, who was using a circular faced comb, who sheared comfortably seven sheep in twenty-nine minutes, and his tally for the day was eighty-four; a remarkably good one considering the
The First Horse Tram in Brisbane, c1880
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Brisbane Courier
Wed 28 Nov 1888
Brisbane Tramway Company
[…] Since the printing of the report the company had sold to the Townsville Omnibus Company a considerable number of light horses which were unfit for the Brisbane traffic, and had formerly been used on the “feeders.” They had also disposed of four waggons and three omnibus, the lot coming to nearly £700. This had relieved the company of a considerable number of animals and vehicles for which they had no present use, and they had agreed to take payment for this rolling-stock and these horses in shares in the Townsville company. He [the chairman] had looked into the matter very carefully when he visited Townsville, and he believed the little ‘bus company there would be an extremely remunerative investment. The town was so laid out that there were no hills on the routes, and the wear and