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Miller, Ian
Title
Alfred Simpson & Son
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2013 South Australian Engineering Heritage Conference - Transactions
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Engineers Australia, South Australia Division, Adelaide, 2013, pp. 45-52
Abstract

Alfred Simpson commenced from humble beginnings in Adelaide in 1853 to manufacture a large range of domestic, industrial and commercial goods. He was born in London where he completed his tinplate apprentice and was indentured into the Worshipful Company of Tinplate Workers. However, he chose to follow his brothers into the fashion industry. After numerous achievements and setbacks he arrived in Australia in 1849, aged forty four, with his wife and three children, and very little else except a drive to succeed. His determination to manufacture a vast array of quality tinware goods of a high quality created slow but steady expansion and success that blossomed through his son, Alfred Muller Simpson, his grandsons, and great-grand sons. The brand name "Simpson" is still well recognised as it survives today on domestic washing machines and clothes dryers throughout Australia.

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