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Book

Author
Jehan, David
Title
Hudson Brothers: a history of Hudson Brothers Carpenters, Engineers and Manufacturers, 1866 to 1898: the foundation of Clyde Engineering
Imprint
Eveleigh Press, Matraville, N.S.W., 2019, 256 pp
ISBN/ISSN
978176568849
Subject
History of Applied Sciences Engineering and Technology
Description

Includes bibliographical references (pages [242]-246, 253) and index.

Abstract

The business founder, Plymouth cabinet-maker William Henry Hudson, arrived in Sydney in 1846 with his family and started a joinery business in Redfern, which became known as 'Hudson & Sons'. Hudson became one of the main builders in Sydney providing timberwork to many notable buildings including the Great Hall of Sydney University. Twenty years later, in 1866, William Henry retired and left the business to his three sons Henry, Robert and William. The firm now look on the new name of 'Hudson Brothers' and a new direction. Under the leadership of Henry Hudson the firm imported the latest woodworking machinery from America and rebuilt the original Redfern joinery shop as the Steam Joinery Works. They also operated their own sawmills in the Myall Lakes district and Pyrmont and had depots in various NSW country towns such as Hill End. The brothers moved into rolling stock manufacture after the collapse of P.N. Russell and Co. and greatly expanded the Redfern works. Their success required further growth resulting in the company building a massive industrial complex in Granville and acquiring a third plant in Wickam. The firm was incorporated as Hudson Brothers Limited in 1882 and became the major railway rolling stock manufacturer at the time. Thousands of goods wagons, passenger carriages and tramcar trailers were built for NSW. ... They were also a major supplier of agricultural equipment including ploughs, chaff cutlers, horse gears, windmills, etc. Hudson Brothers Limited ultimately to become the iconic Clyde Engineering Company in 1898. The timber supply business was split off from the engineering business in 1886 and survives at the time of writing as Hudson Building Supplies which is part of the Independent Hardware Group.

Source
cohn 2021

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