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IH predecessors McCormick and Deering had sold equipment in Australia since 1884. Early production, using imported parts, took place in Spotswood, Victoria, near the company's Australian headquarters in Melbourne. The International Harvester Company of Australia Pty. Ltd. was established in 1912, and took over all assets owned by its ...
GLV-10 in Traralgon was the first regional television station to launch in Australia on 9 December 1961, [1] originally covering the Gippsland and Latrobe Valley areas. It was also the first station to completely use Australian-made broadcasting equipment from Amalgamated Wireless Australasia.
The name "Sunshine" is assumed to have been given by McKay to his harvester works after he attended a lecture by the American evangelist Reverend Thomas De Witt Talmage who visited Victoria in 1894. [1] Another account holds that the name was suggested by James Menzies, who painted the first model. [2]
BCV-8 launched in the same year, on 23 December, while STV followed four years later, on 27 November 1965. [1] GLV-10 became GLV-8 in 1980, when Melbourne commercial station ATV-0 moved frequencies to become ATV-10 [1] The network began life in 1982 as Southern Cross TV8, but later changed its name in 1989 to the Southern Cross Network. [1]
Sales were handled by 2,508 agents in 100 countries. [7] A worldwide recession saw tractor sales slump, and after braving the storm and with the debt of a brand new building and production line to finance, it was inevitable that the company was put up for sale, bought by Tenneco who also owned the US tractor firm J.I. Case Company.
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Throughout the 1960s, IH introduced new tractors and new sales techniques. As producing tractors was the lifeblood of the company, IH would have to remain competitive in this field. They both succeeded and failed at this goal but farming was about to change. In 1963, IH introduced the 73 hp (54 kW) 706 and 95 hp (71 kW) 806 tractors. Until the ...
Throughout the 1980s, a number of regional stations were required to move to different frequencies. These included GLV-10 in Gippsland, who moved to channel 8 in order to allow ATV-0 Melbourne to move to channel 10 in 1980. DDQ-10 and TVQ-0 switched channels to become DDQ-0 and TVQ-10, and SEQ10 became SEQ55 in 1988.