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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2025-01-29 human Ken McInnes updated 2025-11-27 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007587b.htm corporateBody Hydro-electric Power and Metallurgical Company Ltd AACR2 c. 1910 c. 1914 Start Place Tasmania, Australia End Place Tasmania, Australia Energy Smelters or Foundries Hydro-electric Power and Metallurgical Company Ltd was established to generate hydro-electric power at Waddamana, for its use in a calcium carbide plant at Electrona, and an electrolytic zinc smelting and refining works at Risdon, Tasmania. Due to the inability of the company to raise sufficient funding just before the First World War, the power scheme was taken over by the Hydro Electric Department, established in 1914. Butters, John Henry (1885 - 1969)

Engineer-in-Chief 1911 - 1914

 Gillies, James Hynds (1861 - 1942)

Director 1910 - c1914

 Hydro Electric Department, State of Tasmania (1914 - 1930)

The Department was established by the State, to take over the hydro electric scheme.

 'Hydro-electric Power and Metallurgical Company Ltd', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hydro-electric Power and Metallurgical Company Ltd Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Notes on the development of the power resources of Tasmania Butters, John Henry Notes on the development of the power resources of Tasmania Sydney, NSW Institution of Engineers Australia 1927 Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 7 3-36