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Hume Pipe Company (Australia) Limited (1920 - 1950)

From
1920
To
1950

Summary

Registered in Victoria in 1920 to take over the business of Hume Bros Cement Iron Company Limited. The company changed its names to Humes Limited in 1950.

Timeline

 1910 - 1920 Hume Bros Cement Iron Company Limited
       1920 - 1950 Hume Pipe Company (Australia) Limited
             1950 - 1990 Humes Limited
                   1990 - S.C.I. Steel Limited

Archival resources

Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University (formerly Archives of Business and Labour)

  • Humes Limited records, 1911 - 1988, Various, contact Archive; Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University (formerly Archives of Business and Labour). Details

Published resources

Books

  • Commemorating 50 of Progressive Industry: Humes Industries 1892-1942, Hume Pipe Company (Australia) Limited, Melbourne, Victoria, 1942, 8 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Emerson-Elliott, Richard, 'A pipe dream come true: the international expansion of the Hume Pipe Company in the 1920s', Business History, 2003. Details

Bruce A. Smith