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.
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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
Dan Harvey's Foundry
In November, our speaker Irene King told us of her experiences while working in the office at Harvey’s Foundry and Ironworks.
During the Great Depression, work was hard to get and young people began work at an early age to help out financially at home.
At the tender age of fourteen years, Irene began work (somewhat reluctantly) at Mr Harvey’s Foundry in 1933. The boss had a reputation as rather a frightening and loud man, a bit scary for such a young girl.
Soon she found out that Mr Harvey was a very clever man who ran a very busy factory employing over 30 people. They manufactured parts for ploughs used in local orchards, discs for ploughs and cultivator parts.
Leaflets describing each item for sale were available for prospective clients. Irene had the idea of preparing a file for these leaflets to keep them tidy, but customers soon upset her plans by messing up the file and goading the young Irene into an outburst in the presence of Mr Harvey. Fully expecting to be sacked, Irene was surprised to find that Mr Harvey laughed and she concluded that he liked people to stand up to him.
Fruit graders and tobacco planters, dehydrators for dried fruit were built in the Harvey workshop.
Irene told some amusing anecdotes on life in the factory. In the 1939 bush fires, men left the forge and joined forces to fight the fires, which spread across the whole of Victoria. These were the days of hard industrial situations. There was no worker’s compensation for injuries sustained at work. Harvey helped where he could and many times stood guarantor for people who took out loans when money was hard to access. Sometimes these people let him down, but he still looked after the families of these workers.
Irene also remembered the various shops and businesses, which existed in Box Hill in the I930’s and I940’s. Saddlers shops, hardware, butchers shop, cake shop and a bicycle shop were shops important in the lives of people at that time.
As a finale, Irene read a poem “The Old Packing Shed” which evoked the atmosphere of the fruit-packing shed and even the smells of the apples and pears.
Thank you Irene for a fascinating cameo of the past.
Source: 2005-12 DTHS Newsletter
The "Petty Disc orchard Stripping Plough"
"A notable and revolutionary Australian invention"
One of the most important implements used to cultivate the orchards of Doncaster and Templestowe in the latter decades of fruit growing was the "Petty" Disc Orchard Stripping Plough, generally referred to by local orchardists as the Petty Plough.
It was named after its inventors Herb and Frank Petty, who in 1932, developed a prototype that was built for them by Frank Tolley from the chassis of a Model T Ford.
David Harvey, a well known implement maker subsequently improved and manufactured the plough at his foundry in Box Hill, and in the years that followed, sold vast numbers within Australia and New Zealand, New Guinea, England and Germany.
The plough was designed to allow its operator to steer in and out between the trees, giving an even uniform cut, while the horse or tractor in front continued in a straight line clear of the branches. It was steered by means of foot and hand levers, which when manipulated, changed the direction of the wheels. Front and rear wheels could move either in unison or independently of each other. The ploughing discs were mounted on an extended arm at an angle to the frame. The wheels themselves were manufactured on the straight disc principle to eliminate side slipping and facilitate better gripping of the ground, thus holding resistance against the natural push of the extended cutting discs when working.
The saucer shaped discs were reversible for ploughing the strips out from the trees or for ploughing the strips up to the trees. In Autumn, soil was thrown up by the plough closer to the butts of fruit trees (ploughing on) leaving a wide and shallow V shaped depression between adjacent rows of trees.
This facilitated better drainage around the trees in the wetter winter months. In Spring the process was reversed, (ploughing off). Soil was pulled away from the trees again towards the centre of the row. This helped conserve much needed moisture in the hot dry conditions of summer.
The Petty Plough had a number of special features. The frame was strongly braced to withstand the heaviest strains imposed on it and was built low in order to facilitate free working under low hanging branches. It could tum in practically its own radius and the discs did not choke up with weeds.
Harvey manufactured two types of ploughs~ light and heavy which could be used as a single furrow, double furrow or three furrow plough. The single furrow plough had only one disc 23 inches (58mm) in diameter, the double furrow had tow discs one 23 inches and the other 20 inches in diameter. The three furrow plough was equipped with three 23 inch discs.
Following are two testimonials published by Daniel Harvey in one of his early bulletins:
Buxton VIC 11/11/1933I am an owner of an orchard, and I have always had difficulty in ploughing near the trees, and my trees are exceptionally low, but now that I have bought a Petty Plough, I find it a simple matter to do my ploughing. This plough, with a floating arm, will get under the lowest limb, and will plough on or off with the greatest of ease and comfort, and I can highly recommend it to anyone with a large or small or large orchard.Yours Faithfully(Sgd.) Robert Scott
Shepparton East, VIC14th Nov 1933Dear Mr Harvey,We have now had a good test run on over 20 acres in our orchard of your new "Petty" 3-Furrow Plough and its work has exceeded all expectations. I consider it fills a long felt want, and it is what I have often longed for in doing this close work on orchard rows. I feel Messrs Petty Bros are to be most deeply congratulated on the invention of this fine modern orchard implement, and your firm the same for theefficient and prompt manner in expediting it's delivery to Orchardists. You were first in the field with modern orchard implements, and you are 1well upholding your reputation in developing the manufacture of this plough, which will stand out in a class of its own as the most progressive invention yet made in the interests of orchardists.With all good and best wishes, Yours sincerely,(Sgd.) Chas J. Nash
Although the Petty Plough has long since been superseded by modern orchard equipment, it was considered a notable invention in its heyday when no orchard implement shed was complete without its Petty Plough.
Source: Eric Collyer writing in 2009-12 DTHS Newsletter
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