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H V McKay offices / Massey-Ferguson (Aust) Ltd

Location 2 Devonshire Road, SUNSHINE VIC 3020 - Property No 53 File Number 1691 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] 1691 - Brimbank City Council

Statement of Significance

The McKay-Massey-Ferguson office complex at Sunshine is of historical, social and architectural significance at the State and national level for its association with H.V. McKay, the inventor of the Sunshine Harvester and one of Australia's foremost industrial entrepreneurs. The name 'Sunshine', which he gave to the harvester he designed, is perpetuated in the name of the suburb. The offices also represent (by default of being the most substantial surviving element) the scale of the former works as a large dynamic industrial complex that evolved constantly from the establishment of the Braybrook Implement Company in 1889 to the closure of the site by Massey-Ferguson in 1986.