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Board 8: Pipes to the World The Hume pipe firm was the only Australian company of the pre-World War II period to pioneer a new technology and to export its innovations throughout the world. This involved the sale of patent rights to companies in Europe, North and...
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Board 7: Pipemakers, Maribyrnong During the 1950’ to 1970’s, the workers at the Hume Pipe Factory were from many different nationalities – Italian, Yugoslav, Maltese, Dutch and Australian. At peak times, the works employed about 200 people. They worked on ten hour day...
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Board 6: Quarrying and Pipemaking Maribyrnong was an important place for quarrying bluestone from the 1840’s. In 1888, Thomas Warr (Warrs Road) bought the land that is now Pipemakers Park and set up the Maribyrnong Quarrying Company. The handy supply of bluestone was...
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Board 5: Export to World and Refrigeration Pioneer From Maribyrnong to the world: Meat canning and freezing Canning and refrigeration are technologies which can bridge time and space. In the 1860’s, for the first time, the surplus food of Australia – a place of plenty...
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Board 4: Australia’s Leading Meat Cannery The Melbourne Meat Preserving Company, established at Maribyrnong in 1868, employed 300 men at peak times, from a variety of trades. Many workers were migrants from England, Ireland and Germany. Output was enormous, e.g....
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Board 3: Sheep to Tallow and Locomotives Sheep to Tallow Explorers in 1803 and 1835 noted the grassy plains, the river’s salty water, the lack of trees, except for she-oaks. From late 1835 men and sheep invaded the grasslands and the valley. Contact with the settlers...
