Documents include Day Book for repairs done by Daniel Harvey at his blacksmith's shop in 1906-1910.
Daniel Harvey's ledger of his blacksmith shop in Lower Templestowe repairing plough shares, horse shoes etc. from 1906 - 1910. The ledger includes the price of the work and the name of the customer.
DTHS Archive dd5JF9
and a photocopy of a document containing advertisements, testimonials and photographs of the Petty two-furrow disc orchard stripping plough. The document is produced by D Harvey, Box Hill, and carries his name, although it does not mention Herb and Frank Petty who originally developed the plough.
DTHS Archive dd5AF2D1 c1934
You can also find references to Daniel Harvey in the old Australian newspapers available on Trove, a collection of the National Library of Australia.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=harvey+d+implement+maker
In fact in many places, a service station now stands on the site of a blacksmith's shop. At Templestowe, a service station has been built on the corner of Foote Street and Main Road. This was the site Calder chose for his smithy, that was later run by Dan Harvey then Crampton.
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| Dan Harvey's Templestowe implements works, at the east corner of Foote and Union Streets Templestowe. The photograph shows a fruit wagon, drays and carts and a group of workman outside the entrance to the works. The premises were built by A. Calder. DTHS-dp0506 |
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| Dan Harvey and unknown person at the wheel of his Velie motorcar, outside his forge at Templestowe. Unknown person seated beside him. 1907 DTHS-DP0172 |
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| Left. Mrs William D'Arcy (nee Alice Elsie Adams b1878) Right: Sister Mrs Daniel Harvey (nee Maud Adams b1882). Daughters of Mark and Emily Hardidge.. DTHS-dp0681 |
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| Photograph of E. Harvey, brother of Daniel Harvey the implement maker. The photo is said to have been taken at the rear of the Athenaeum Hall at Doncaster. The cottage in the background may have been the caretaker’s cottage. The plough is a shifting handle single furrow plough, used for getting in close under the trees. DTHS-dp1030 E.P. Whitten collection c1910 |
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| Ploughing with a Petty plough at Thiele's orchard during a Fruit Growers' Association visit. DTHS-dp0434 There is a Petty Plough in the implement shed at the Schramms Cottage Museum complex. |
Daniel Harvey, The Father of Power Farming.
Needs proofreading
Our guest speaker for April was Mrs Francis Warren of the Box Hill Historical Society. Shc is an authority on the blacksmith, Daniel Han,. whose family was connected with her own through her brother-in-law, Stan Finger.
Daniel Harvey was born in 1876. in Mysia, in the Malice. His father, Mallachi, was a farmer, and he and his wife, Elizabeth, had eleven sons. Daniel being the fifth. Young Daniel trained as a blacksmith in South Gippsland but, on completing his apprenticeship, he moved to Melbourne and worked for Kurt Hillman in his smithy at the corner of Wetherby and Doncaster Roads.
After Kurt died he stayed on there managing the business, until Mrs Annie Hillman re-married.
He then moved to Sunshine Hanesters (11.V.McKayl.
Later he started his own smithy in Union Raid Templestowe.
While in Templcstowe he married Maud Adams. Of their two sons one died The other, Hugh, joined the family business. This was moved to Whitehorse Road. Box Hill (present LE PINES Funeral Parlor site, Hcrc he had a factory making orchardists equipment such as ploughs, cultivators. fruit drying racks. and even graders. Much of this equipments he invented himself All of Nancy's mobile machine, was horse drawn till after World War 11. w hen he developed and patented the first Power Lift Tractor Plough. In 1945 he relocated his enterprise in Whitehorse Road. Nunavvading. Two years after Harvey's death the firm was taken OVCT by Gerard Austraha, then by Horwood Bagshaw (folded 1972) Han, died 22 December, 1960, and is buried in Box Hill cemetery The house Daniel Haney buiilt for his wife when the, were first married stood at the corner of Parker and Union Streets, Templestowe, and his foundry vvas at the corner of Foote and Union Streets. Even after he moved to Box Hill, his machinery was still serving the local farms and orchards, so Daniel Harvey was very much a part of our Doncaster-Templestowe heritage.
Source: Joan Ray writing in 1996 06 DTHS Newsletter
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