The Australian firm of A. H. McDonald & Company of Melbourne was founded by Alfred Henry McDonald in 1908. McDonald built a 20 hp 2-cylinder tractor which he called the Imperial EA Type All-Steel Oil Tractor These were built from 1909 till the early 1920s when cheaper imports mad it uneconomical to build them. From 1920 to 1929 McDonald imported American Emmerson-Brantingham and Swedish Avance tractors.