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.
BusinessName Founded Ceased Founder/s Factory address SA-manufactured products Notes Actil 1941 cotton fabricbed sheets for Australian Cotton Textile Industries Ltd. Bagshaw Ltd. farm machinery, inc. Ridley's "stripper" Castalloy 1948 aluminium alloy castingspressure cookersalloy wheels Clipsal 1920 electrical conduit fittingsmains plugs and socketsswitchgear Coldstream 1926 refrigerators Dobbie Dico 1862 brass castingswater meters Entech Group19867 Marlow Road, KeswickPCB's, membrane keypads, electronic products Griffin Press 1858 contract printers subsidiary of Advertiser Ltd. Hills Industries 1948 Hills hoists TV antennae Horwood Bagshaw farm machinery Humes concrete pipes James Martin & Co farm machineryrailway engines K.B.C. c. 1947? die-cast parts for auto makershand-operated clothes wringerpistol drills (240VAC and 32VDC models)domestic food mixers for Kenneth Bowes Co. Lightburn & Co washing machineshydraulic jacksconcrete mixersZeta cars May Brothers and Company (John) Frederick May mining machineryfarm machinery Metters 1895? windpumpswood stovesgas stovesbakers' ovens Minelab metal detectors Perry Engineering 1899 1969 railway engines Pope Products 1935 garden sprinklerswashing machineselectric motors Rossi Boots 1910 now Churchill Road, Kilburn boots and shoes for Rossiters Ltd. Sabco 1892 brooms and brushes for South Australian Brush Co. Scott Bonnar & Co 1920 Malcolm Cornelius Bonnar brass castingselectric lawnmowershand mowers Simpson 1853 (later) Simpson Ave., Dudley Park tinwarewood stovesgas stovesfireproof safeswashing machines Sola Optical spectacle lenses Solver Paints 1931 house paints Sportco .22 rifles for Sporting Arms Ltd. Wakefield Press 1942 books, esp. academic and SA history Wallis Refrigeration 1935 kerosine refrigeratorselectric refrigerators Mistral Appliances1968airfryers kitchen appliances cooling systemsGerard LightingSimon Gerardlighting appliances
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