A000951
revised
AU-VU:EOAS
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
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English
AACR2
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
Corporate Body
created
2001-06-18
human
Ailie Smith
updated
2025-11-05
human
https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000951b.htm
corporateBody
Commonwealth Fertilisers
AACR2
1929
Start Place
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Agricultural Industry
Chemical Industries
Commonwealth Fertilisers was formed in 1929 when Cuming Smith and Company and several other fertiliser companies merged. They supplied raw chemicals to many companies including Monsanto Australia for their phenol production.
Trove
'Commonwealth Fertilisers', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
Commonwealth Fertilisers
Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988
Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Technology in Australia 1788-1988
Online
Melbourne
Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
2000
Cuming Smith and Company Limited - Records
The University of Melbourne Archives
Cuming Smith and Company Limited - Records
78/97
1829 - 1977
Minutes 1897-1947; director's attendance books; share issues; public relations; business correspondence and memoranda 1875-1960; legal documents 1871-1956; reports and submissions 1903-1965; catalogues 1882-1974; accounts and stock records; ledgers; balance sheets; medals 1877-1925; amalgamation and kindred matters; maps and plans 1860-1959; personnel; technical reports; publications; newspaper clippings. Cuming family papers: private diaries; correspondence; documents; note- books 1829-1944. Victorian Fertilizer Association minutes 1907-1929.
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