Person
Gerard, Alfred Edward (1877 - 1950)
- Born
- 11 August 1877
Aberdeen, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 13 October 1950
- Occupation
- Merchant
Summary
Alfred Edward Gerard founded Gerard & Goodman, an electrical merchandising business in Adelaide (1907). In 1921 he founded Gerard Industries, the first in Australia to manufacture conduit fittings for sheet metals so that they could expand or contract. His four sons later joined the business, which manufactured Clipsal products and was still in family hands in the 1980s.
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Warden, Alan, 'Gerard, Alfred Edward (1877-1950), merchant and Aboriginal welfare worker' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 642-643. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080657b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21535376. Details
- 'Gerard, Alfred Edward (1877-1950)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464173. 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_g.html. Details
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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 4 February 2010
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