Person
Goninan, Alfred (1865 - 1953)
- Born
- 29 May 1865
St Just, Cornwall, England - Died
- 25 August 1953
Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Engineer
Summary
Alfred Goninan established an engineering business at Wickham, near Newcastle, New South Wales, with his brother Ralph (1899). By 1926 the brothers were joint managing directors and Alfred was chairman. They made pitheads, boilers, wagons and a huge, cast 41-ton block for the district's coal trade. Although he left the firm because of personal debts during the Depression, the firm survived. It still bears his name and is Australia's largest maker of rail-cars. Goninan also helped to establish Commonwealth Steel Products Co. Ltd at Waratah, Newcastle, mainly to produce railway wheels and axles.
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Fredman, L.E., 'Goninan, Alfed (1865-1953) and Ralph Williams Goninan (1874-1948), Engineers' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 14 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 291-292. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140330b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21535391. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94192123. Details
- 'Goninan, Alfred (1865-1953)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-606943. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_g.html. Details
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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 11 August 2016
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