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