Corporate Body
MacDonald Wagner & Priddle Pty Ltd (1934 - 1989)
- From
- 1934
North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - To
- 1989
- Functions
- Engineering Industry
- Location
- North Sydney, New South Wales
Summary
Established in 1934, as the engineering consulting firm of A. S. MacDonald and Wagner, it changed to Macdonald Wagner & Priddle in 1948, was then incorporated in 1971 as Macdonald Wagner & Priddle Pty Ltd, and in 1984 changed its name to Macdonald Wagner Pty Ltd.
In 1989 Macdonald Wagner merged with the Connell Group of companies to form the Connell Wagner Group. At that time Macdonald Wagner had a staff of 300 and a $25million turnover, and Connell had a staff of 460 and a turnover of $30 million. At the time, Tony Denham was the chief executive of Macdonald Wagner, and Jack Wynhoven was the chief executive of Connell.
Details
Associated major projects:
* 1937 Challis House, Martin Place Sydney, NSW;
* 1938 Kingaroy Peanut Silos, Haly Street, Kingaroy, QLD;
* 1959 Wickham Terrace Car Park, Brisbane, QLD;
* 1962 Fitzgerald Bridge, Williams River, Raymond Terrace, NSW;
* 1986 Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, QLD.
Chronology
- 1934
- Event - Established as patnership, A. S. Macdonald and Wager
- 1944
- Event - Ray Priddle joined as a partner
- 1948
- Event - Partnership renamed as Macdonald Wagner & Priddle
- 1971
- Event - Incorporated as Macdonald Wagner & Priddle Pty Ltd
- 1984
- Event - Renamed as Macdonald Wagner Pty Ltd
- 1989
- Event - Macdonald Wagner merged with the Connell group to form the Connell Wagner group
Related entries
Published resources
Edited Books
- Lewis, Miles ed., Two hundred years of concrete in Australia (North Sydney: Concrete Institute of Australia, 1988), 137 pp. See Gateway Bridge (Qld) 1986, p.59. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Challis House, Sydney, reconstruction and remodelling: an interesting engineering achievment', Building, 61 (366) (1938), 22-27, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-296993269/view?sectionId=nla.obj-310592522. Details
- 'New silo for Harold Meggitt Ltd, Punt Road, Gladesville', Building and Engineering, 3 (1945), 25. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-463797. 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_m.html. Details
Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes
Created: 6 August 2001, Last modified: 10 December 2024
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