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Description

Traction engines – wheeled steam engines – were imported into New Zealand from 1880. They mainly ran threshers, but some drove other machines such as chaff cutters, which chopped hay or straw for animal feed.

Identification

Object type
Image
Identifier
2014P_Tr12_009303
Date
circa 1900
Digitisation id
2014P_Tr12_009303
Format
B&W print

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Taxonomy

Tags
farming,
hay stacks,
horses,
rural,
traction engines,
workers,
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