Corporate Body

Fulton's Foundry

From
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Functions
Metallurgy, Mineralogy or mining and Engineering Industry
Location
Melbourne, Victoria

Summary

Fulton's Foundry were blacksmiths, engineers and millwrights, in Flinders Street, Melbourne. They produced a variety of goods including award-winning wool presses, bullocks' yokes, carriages and marine and other steam engines. The firm supplied the first engines, pumping and hoisting machinery erected at the Ballarat goldfield, together with engines and boilers for use in Murray River paddle steamers

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

Resources

  • Churchward, Matthew Spencer; Milner, Peter, 'Vol.4, p.70', 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-1475986. Details

See also

Ailie Smith

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