Corporate Body

Victoria Foundry (1850s - ?)

From: 1850s
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Functions: Smelters or Foundries

Summary

The Victoria Foundry produced items such as steam engines and water wheels for flour mills, one of the latter produced by the foundry measured 3.5 metres in diameter.

Published resources

Resources

Churchward, Matthew Spencer; Milner, Peter, 'Vol.1, p.71', The principal engineering establishments in Victoria in the period 1842 - 1945, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 1988. Details
Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1474335. Details

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