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
- 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_f.html. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 27 September 2001, Last modified: 16 March 2006
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