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Thread #40474 Message #3525072
Posted By: Bob Bolton
10-Jun-13 - 11:54 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Click Go the Shears
Subject: RE: Origins: Click Go the Shears
G'day yet again ... ,
Then I did some other background checking ... and noticed that Wolsely's mechanical sheep shears ... having been inspired and engineered up in Australia ... were tested and pronounced effective - in Britain from about a year earlier ... so that this published text comes just before the hand-shearing tradition is about to be replaced by machine-shearing!