Showing 3 results

Fonds consists of documents, technical drawings, photographs, clippings, reprinted articles on Massey Ferguson or Massey Harris, a badge, a pin, a business card, and some drafting tools. There are also some internal newsletters and publications from Massey-Harris in Australia. The archives show that Windsor seems to have been involved in the design of model 37 combine and that he worked in Canada, Australia, and France.

The fonds consists of textual records of the Otto Pick and Sons Seeds Limited company, a family business and precursor to the Pickseed Group of Companies, which became the largest forage and turf seed company in Canada. The fonds is comprised of 16 ledgers, 5 indexes and an agricultural school report card from Bohemia, with contemporary translation, for Marie Pick (née Jakesova) from when she graduated in 1930. The ledgers, indexes, and certificate with translation are arranged in three series and filed chronologically.

The fonds includes record books, an examination booklet, blank overtime forms and blank forms for “Engineer’s Report of Detention to Trains.” Record books show threshing work Cober performed and his payment circa 1896 and his trips as a fireman or engineer in the GTR southern region. The completed examination booklet is the ‘Examination A Paper. Grand Trunk Railway system. Examination of conductors, engineers and train despatchers in the rules.”