A sheep shearer is a worker who uses (hand-powered)-blade or machine shears to remove wool from domestic sheep during crutching or shearing.
Crutching a sheep that has been wigged (eye-wooled).
Shearers' moccasins on a wool rolling table
Sheep shearing by Jean-François Millet
The Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company
The Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company Limited was a London-incorporated public listed company created to capitalize on a sheep-shearing machinery business established by Frederick Wolseley in Australia which was managed by Herbert Austin who went on to manufacture Wolseley and Austin cars.
1888 (Shearing the rams) the hard work revolutionized by Wolseley
1895
Traditional sheep shears
Austin's first Wolseley car dated 1895 in this 1916 article