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The Wolseley portable shearing machine

Frederick Wolseley’s invention of the first commercially successful sheep shearing machine in Australia revolutionised the sheep shearing industry. Wolseley was a great promoter of his machines. He visited shearing sheds to give practical lessons and demonstrated the machines at agricultural shows.

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National Museum of Australia

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