A001497
revised
AU-VU:EOAS
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
All key entry types: Awards; Concepts; Corporate Bodies (Organisations); Cultural Artefacts; People; etc
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English
AACR2
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
Corporate Body
created
2001-09-14
human
Ailie Smith
updated
2025-11-05
human
https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A001497b.htm
corporateBody
Thompson Engineering & Pipe Co. Ltd
AACR2
Start Place
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Location
Castlemaine, Victoria
Maritime Industry
Engineering Industry
Thompson Engineering & Pipe Co. Ltd. produced a 550 tonne bunkering barge in 1935. At the time it was the largest all-welded vessel in Australia and one of very few in the world.
Trove
'Thompson Engineering & Pipe Co. Ltd', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
Thompson Engineering & Pipe Co. Ltd
Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
Journal Article: Thompsons of Castlemaine: a great engineering company from the days when "Australia made stuff"
Peake, Owen
Thompsons of Castlemaine: a great engineering company from the days when "Australia made stuff"
2016
Engineering Heritage Australia magazine
2
2
10-4
Book: Victorian steampower : an illustrated social history
McCann, Joy; Churchward, Matthew
Victorian steampower : an illustrated social history
Melbourne, Vic.
Victoria Press
1994
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
Charles George Weickhardt : Notes on the history of engineering firms in Victoria
Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc
Charles George Weickhardt : Notes on the history of engineering firms in Victoria
MS 000036 (Box 017-1)
c. 1950 - 2000
A transcribed account of engineering firms in Victoria from the 19th to 20th century. The author is Charles George Weickhardt.
The compiled documentation is of historical significance to Victoria, as it describes the early years of engineering.
The list of engineering firms:
Austral Otis Engineering Company Ltd;
Atlas Company of Engineers;
The Bendigo Engineers;
Campbell, Sloss and McCann;
Enoch Chambers;
Edward Campbell & Son;
Davies and Shephard;
Charles Dangerfield and Co;
Drysdale and Fraser;
M. G. Dyke & Son;
C. Ebeling & Sons;
Fulton Foundry Company;
William Glover & Co;
W. G. Goetz & Sons;
Humble & Sons (in Geelong);
Jacques Bros;
Johns & Waygood;
Kelly & Lewis Ltd;
Langlands Foundry Company;
A. H. McDonald & Co;
McKenzie & Holland;
H. W. Mould (Clyde Iron Works);
David Munro & Co;
Joseph Nixon;
Orton & Burns;
Phoenix Foundry Company;
D. Richardson & Sons;
Schumachers Mill Furnishing Works;
J. J. Sneesby (Standard Engineering Works);
John W. Stamp Pty. Ltd;
Union Foundry (in Ballarat);
Thompsons Ltd (in Castlemaine);
Vickers Ruwolt;
John Welsh Pty Ltd;
Wright & Edwards Ltd.