A001509
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
2001-09-17
human
Ailie Smith
updated
2025-11-05
human
https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A001509b.htm
corporateBody
Union Foundry
AACR2
1863
Start Place
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Location
Ballarat, Victoria
Smelters or Foundries
Established by two Ballarat men in 1863, the Union Foundry manufactured products used by the local gas company, the Ballarat Meat Preserving Company and Queensland sugar mills.
Trove
'Union Foundry', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
Union Foundry
Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
Resource: The principal engineering establishments in Victoria in the period 1842 - 1945
Churchward, Matthew Spencer; Milner, Peter
The principal engineering establishments in Victoria in the period 1842 - 1945
Parkville, VIC
University of Melbourne
1988
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.