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
Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a shearer. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year. The annual shearing most often occurs in a shearing shed, a facility especially designed to process often hundreds and sometimes more than 3,000 sheep per day. A working group of shearers and accompanying wool workers is known as a shearing gang.
Machine shearing a Merino, Western Australia. The shearer is using a sling for back support.
Shears and cowbells c. 250 AD Spain
Sheep in modern Crete
Throwing a fleece onto a wool table.