J. & D. Shearer

The family migrated to South Australia in the Omega, arriving in South Australia on 24 August 1852, living first at Port Adelaide, where their father pursued his trade of stonemason, then at Clare,[1] where the youngest boys attended the local school.

When that business failed he moved to the other end of town where J. G. Ramsay of Mount Barker had a workshop.

In 1888 they started manufacture of a wrought ploughshare using a resilient grade of steel developed for him by Meadow's company in England.

He noted strippers made by the firm were lined up outside the factory on the banks of the Murray River awaiting shipment by paddle steamer and barge.

[7] In 1904 the two partners, each wishing to concentrate on their own specialities, separated as far as manufacturing was concerned, then dissolved their partnership in 1910.