Corporate Body
Kimpton's Flour Mills
- From
- Kensington, Victoria, Australia
- Functions
- Food or beverage industry
- Location
- Kensington, Victoria
Summary
Kimpton's Flour Mill was established by W. S. Kimpton and produced biscuit flours from local wheat and supplied the major biscuit manufacturers throughout Australia. In 1936 it became the first Australian flour mill to have a laboratory and the first to run a commercial plant to trial the air classification of flour technique in 1959.
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Published resources
Books
- Jones, W. Lewis, Where Have all the Flour Mills Gone? A History of W.S. Kimpton and Sons - Flour Millers (Melbourne: The Flourmillers' Council of Victoria, 1984), 221 pp. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477030. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_k.html. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 26 July 2001, Last modified: 3 February 2010
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