List of South Australian manufacturing businesses

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A list of manufacturing companies founded in South Australia, many now forgotten but "household names" in their day. It does not include local affiliates of multinational companies, such as General Motors Holden, Kelvinator and Philips Electrical Industries. Nor does it (yet) include food and beverage companies such as AMSCOL, Chapmans, Coopers, Glen Ewin and Haighs or pharmaceuticals and toiletries such as Bickfords, Cromptons and Fauldings.

Business
Name		 Founded Ceased Founder/s Factory address SA-manufactured products Notes
Actil 1941 Actil Ave., Woodville cotton fabric
bed sheets		 for Australian Cotton Textile Industries Ltd.
Bagshaw Ltd. John Stokes Bagshaw farm machinery, inc. Ridley's "stripper"
Castalloy 1948 76 Mooringe Ave., North Plympton aluminium alloy castings[1]
pressure cookers
alloy wheels
Clipsal 1920 Alfred Gerard electrical conduit fittings
mains plugs and sockets
switchgear
Coldstream 1926[2] 82–86 Mary St., Unley refrigerators
Dobbie Dico 1862 A. W. Dobbie Sultram Place, Adelaide brass castings
water meters
Griffin Press 1858 contract printers subsidiary of Advertiser Ltd.
Hills Industries 1948 Lance Hill South Rd., Edwardstown Hills hoists
TV antennae
Horwood Bagshaw Joel Horwood farm machinery
Humes Walter Hume concrete pipes
James Martin & Co James Martin farm machinery
railway engines
K.B.C. c. 1947? 17 Woodlands Tce., Edwardstown die-cast parts for auto makers
hand-operated clothes wringer
pistol drills (240VAC and 32VDC models)[3]
domestic food mixers		 for Kenneth Bowes Co.
Lightburn & Co washing machines
hydraulic jacks
concrete mixers
May Brothers and Company Alfred May
(John) Frederick May		 mining machinery
farm machinery
Metters 1895? Frederick Metters 7–25 Manchester St., Mile End South windpumps
wood stoves
gas stoves
bakers' ovens
Minelab metal detectors
Perry Engineering 1899 1969 Samuel Perry railway engines
Pope Products 1935 Barton Pope 13–23 Pope St., Beverley garden sprinklers
washing machines
electric motors
Rossi Boots 1910 Dunn's Lane, Unley
now Churchill Road, Kilburn		 boots and shoes for Rossiters Ltd.
Sabco 1892[4] Betting St., Albert Park brooms and brushes for South Australian Brush Co.
Scott Bonnar & Co 1920[2]
Malcolm Cornelius Bonnar		 Holland Street, Thebarton brass castings
electric lawnmowers
hand mowers
Simpson 1853 Alfred Simpson 41–49 Pirie St., Adelaide
(later) Simpson Ave., Dudley Park		 tinware
wood stoves
gas stoves
fireproof safes
washing machines
Sola Optical spectacle lenses
Solver Paints 1931 95–97 Gouger St., Adelaide house paints
Sportco 837 South Road, St. Marys .22 rifles[5] for Sporting Arms Ltd.
Wakefield Press 1942 books, esp. academic and SA history
Wallis Refrigeration 1935[2] 136 South Rd., Richmond kerosine refrigerators
electric refrigerators

References[]

  1. ^ "Well, what is it?". The News. Vol. 61, no. 9, 457. South Australia. 1 December 1953. p. 19. Retrieved 4 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ a b c "Big Variety in Electrical Appliances". The Advertiser. Vol. 94, no. 29, 142. South Australia. 6 March 1952. p. 13 (Royal Adelaide Exhibition Supplement). Retrieved 15 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Advertising". The Chronicle. Vol. 92, no. 51, 194. South Australia. 7 July 1949. p. 12. Retrieved 15 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "About sabco".
  5. ^ "Premier to see first mass-made shotguns". The News. Vol. 62, no. 9, 518. South Australia. 11 February 1954. p. 10. Retrieved 16 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
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