Corporate Body
Thompson Engineering & Pipe Co. Ltd
- From
- Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
- Functions
- Maritime Industry and Engineering Industry
- Location
- Castlemaine, Victoria
Summary
Thompson Engineering & Pipe Co. Ltd. produced a 550 tonne bunkering barge in 1935. At the time it was the largest all-welded vessel in Australia and one of very few in the world.
Archival resources
Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc
- Charles George Weickhardt : Notes on the history of engineering firms in Victoria, c. 1950 - 2000, MS 000036 (Box 017-1); Weickhardt, Charles George Talbot (George) (1906 - 2000); Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc. Details
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Peake, Owen, 'Thompsons of Castlemaine: a great engineering company from the days when "Australia made stuff"', Engineering Heritage Australia magazine, 2 (2) (2016), 10-4, https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/Learned%20Society/eha%20magazine%20vol%202%20no%202%20April%202016.pdf. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475484. 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_t.html. Details
- McCann, Joy; Churchward, Matthew, Victorian steampower : an illustrated social history (Melbourne, Vic.: Victoria Press, 1994), 179 pp. pp.75-76,79,107-119. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 14 September 2001, Last modified: 3 February 2010
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