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- 1944-12-31 - 1948-12-30 (Creation)
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CNRRA / 475
Honan, China
The seven-foot machine does in one operation the work that takes Chinese farmers many strokes, for they customarily thresh their grain by flailing stalks on the ground Operating this combine are Harry Hemmings, in dark glasses, Massey-Harris combine specialist on loan to UNRRA; Harry Sherwood, in driver's seat, UNRRA-MOAF farm machinery specialist; and Pappy Shih, in pith helmet, captain of UNRRA's tractor training activites in Honan Six of UNRRA's 20 combines in China are in Honan, the others having been sent to Hupeh, Hunan, and Manchuria Another 20 combines are on their way to China from the United States (Photo by UNRRA)
Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
China
Farming -- China
Farming -- China -- Henan Sheng
Threshing -- China -- Henan Sheng
Combines (Agricultural machinery)
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
RM
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Copy of: S-0801-0001-07-55: UNRRA combine in operation in China
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While villagers watch, the first UNRRA combine in operation in China, a self-propelled Massey-Harris which threshes wheat in a single operation, goes into action in Honan Province