A002053 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2002-07-03 human Ailie Smith updated 2026-01-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A002053b.htm corporateBody Imperial Chemical industry of Australia and New Zealand Limited AACR2 1928 1971 Start Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Location Melbourne, Victoria Chemical Industries Imperial Chemical industry of Australia and New Zealand Limited (ICIANZ) replaced Imperial Chemical industry (Australasia) Limited in 1928. ICIANZ continued the work of its predecessor, manufacturing explosives at the Deer Park site, and later diversified, manufacturing slide fasteners, ammonia and polyethylene film, to name a few. In 1971 ICIANZ became ICI Australia Limited. Imperial Chemical industry (Australasia) Limited (1926 - 1928) Meehan, Francis Thomas (c. 1898 - 1957)

Chairman 1947 - 1953

 Cox, Stewart Francis (1924 - 1979)

General Manager, Organic Chemicals Group 1965 - 1971

 Somerset, Henry Beaufort (1906 - 1995)

Director 1963 - 1971

 Weickhardt, Leonard William (Len) (1908 - 2000)

Executive and Research Director 1955 - 1970

 Swanson, Thomas Baikie (1910 - 1995)

Executive Director 1955 - 1963

 Garran, Richard Randolph (1903 - 1991)

Assistant group controller, Alkali Group 1950 - 1960; Staff manager 1960 - 1966

 Whitton, William Ivo (Bill) (1924 - 2019)

Executive Director 1970 - 1971

 Bonython, Charles Warren (1916 - 2012)

Chemical engineer 1940 - 1966

 Saunders, Edward Walter (Pete) (1923 - 2005)

Chief Works Engineer 1962 - 1974. (Later Executive Director, ICI Australia Ltd)

 Hamer, Alan William (1917 - 2012)

Managing director / Deputy chairman 1971 - 1979; Executive director 1959 - 1968; Technical Controller 1956 - 1959; Chemical Group Development Manager 1950 - 1959; Chemical engineer 1942 - 1950.

 Glenn, Joseph Robert Archibald (Archibald) (1911 - 2012)

Chairman 1963 - 1973; Director 1952 - 1973; Managing Director 1953 - 1973; General Manager 1950 - 1952.

 Central Research Laboratories, ICI Australia Ltd (1956 - 1990s) ICI Australia Ltd (1971 - 1998)

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 'Imperial Chemical industry of Australia and New Zealand Limited', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Imperial Chemical industry of Australia and New Zealand Limited Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Veterinarians in the development of an Australian pharmaceutical industry Reed, Geoff A. Veterinarians in the development of an Australian pharmaceutical industry 2012 Australian Veterinary History Record 62 9-36