Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Taken from: The Longreach Leader, 23 July 1926
Stock and Station.
Some men have only a hazy idea of what is meant by the term “tops.” Referring to this ignorance “Elder’s Weekly,” Perth, remarks that to get a better understanding it is best to start at the time wool is classed in the shed. The fleeces are put into the classes known as combing and clothing. The former is the longer wool that is suitable for putting through the combing machine. The wool is first of all put through the scour and thoroughly cleaned, after which it is put into the combing machine. This is a most intricate piece of machinery with many very fine teeth which pass through the wool, and take out all die foreign matter and cross fibres. The stuff that is combed out is called nolls. The rest of the wool is then