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 1920 he started making electrical fittings, and formed Gerard Industries in 1931 to take over this business. The company was the first in Australia to manufacture electrical conduit fittings that could adjust, expand or contract, brand named as "Clipsal" products. He built a moulding plant to make other electrical accessories including flush wall-switches and ceiling switches.

His four sons, Hubert, Jack, Geoffrey and Ken later joined and continues the businesses, that were still in family hands in the late 1980s.

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Books

  • Cumming, D. A.; Moxham, G. C., They built South Australia : engineers, technicians, manufacturers, contractors and their work (Adelaide: D.A. Cumming and G.C Moxham, 1986), 241 pp. p.70. Details

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

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See also

Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes

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