Person

MacDougall, James (1858 - 1942)

Born
9 July 1858
Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
Died
8 April 1942
East Malvern, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Manufacturer

Summary

James MacDougall established the Austral Nail Company in South Melbourne in 1889, expanding into barbed wire in 1905 and wiredrawing in 1911. He opened a second plant at Newcastle, New South Wales in 1919. In 1921 Austral amalgamated with Rylands Bros Ltd to become Rylands Bros (Australia) Ltd. This merged with B.H.P. in 1925, at which stage MacDougall retired.

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Published resources

Book Sections

  • Friend, Warren, 'MacDougall, James (1858-1942), manufacturer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 259-260. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100252b.htm. Details

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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_m.html. Details
  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details

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