Story: Farm mechanisation

More links and websites

• The dairy industry

  This page on the Techhistory website looks at technological advances in the New Zealand dairy industry.

• Tokomaru Steam

  The website of the Tokomaru Steam Engine Museum, which houses and displays steam-powered machinery.

• Hayes Engineering Works and homestead

  This page on the Heritage New Zealand website briefly discusses the history of the engineering company.

More suggestions and sources

• Evans, B. L. A history of farm implements and implement firms in New Zealand. Feilding: B. L. Evans, 1984.
• Geelen, Janic, and Ray Deerness. The topdressers. Waiuku: New Zealand Aviation Press, 1990.
• Hawke, Vera, and Tiwi Scott. Early farm machinery in New Zealand. Carterton: Vera Hawke, Tiwi Scott and Roydhouse Publishing, 1985.
• Martin, John E. The forgotten worker: the rural wage earner in nineteenth-century New Zealand. Wellington: Allen & Unwin and Trade Union History Project, 1990.
• Robinson, R. H. Farm tractors in New Zealand. Ngongotahā: Country Life, 1989.
• Warr, Eric. From bush-burn to butter: a journey in words and pictures. Wellington: Butterworths, 1988.