P007089 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2022-09-13 human Helen Cohn updated 2024-06-12 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007089b.htm corporateBody Western District Co-Operative Box Company AACR2 Co-Operative Box Company 1904 Start Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Manufacturing Industry The Western District Co-Operative Box Company (later the Co-Operative Box Company) was based in Melbourne, with operations in Dandenong and Yarraville. Its business was the manufacture of boxes for the storage and transport of butter produced by the dairy industry. A box-making factory was opened in Warrnambool in 1912. Initially New Zealand white pine was imported to make the boxes, the oils of Australian hardwoods having been found to taint the butter. This impediment having been overcome, Australian trees were used, particularly from the Otway Ranges. A fire in Warrnambool caused the company to close the factory. 'Western District Co-Operative Box Company', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Western District Co-Operative Box Company Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: The Warrnambool box factory Houghton, Norman The Warrnambool box factory 2019 Australian Forest History Society Newsletter 78 7-8