Perry Engineering
Industry | Foundry and steel engineering works |
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Founded | 1899 |
Founder | Samuel Perry |
Defunct | 1969 |
Headquarters | |
Subsidiaries | James Martin & Co |
Perry Engineering was a major foundry and steel engineering works in the state of South Australia.
History
Perry Engineering had its origins in 1899 when
In 1915, Perry purchased the
James Martin's locomotive manufacturing business was also being challenged by the state-owned Islington Railway Workshops. Samuel Perry transferred most of the heavy work to the Mile End factory, leaving the Gawler works with the rump of the business. He took on his nephew Frank as works manager at Mile End around 1918;[5] In 1930, on the death of his uncle, Frank took over the company, which in 1937 was registered as Perry Engineering Co. Ltd.[6]
Perry Engineering built locomotives for the
During World War II much of the factory was converted to manufacture munitions and defence equipment including two types of vehicles which were sold to the Americans. One of the two vehicles was the Ferret scout car.[citation needed]
A heavy steel manufacturing plant was established in
In 1966 Perry Engineering merged with Victorian company Johns & Waygood to form Johns Perry Engineering.[9] The Mile End workshop closed three years later. Ten years later the company had no manufacturing capabilities in South Australia.[6] In 1986 the company was taken over by Boral.[10] As part of a company-wide rationalization, Boral decided to divest its engineering division and subsequently, Perry Engineering was sold to the Pope Electric Motors Group however, due to financial issues and lack of projects & contracts, Pope Electric Motors & Perry Engineering went into administration in 2000 and were subsequently liquidated.
In 2001, most buildings on site were demolished to allow construction of the Mile End Homemaker Centre, then in 2004/2005 the last remaining buildings were demolished to make way for stage 2 of the Homemaker Centre.[citation needed]
Output
Products and projects
- Anzac Class Frigates - Stabilizers & Rudders
- Bushmaster PMV - (Prototype built in 1995/6, project then sold to ADI Limited sometime around 1996 when Boral divested its engineering division)
- Collins Class Submarines - Hull Segments 300 & 600, Interior Platforms, Drinking Water Piping & Storage Tanks & Thrust Bearings
- Construction Equipment - Trenchers, Tractor Cranes & Crane Borers
- Cranes - (Travelling, Portal, Container & Tractor cranes)
- Controllable-pitch propellers - Joint-venture with Lips N.V of Holland
- Elevators & escalators
- Northern Power Station - Electrostatic Precipitators & Structural Steel
- Olympic Dam Mine Project
- Paper Machines (Contract manufacturing of paper machines for Beloit)
- Perry-Hitachi Reclaimers
- Structural Steelwork - Adelaide Festival Centre, Goldsbrough House, Yallourn W Power Station
- Metal Castings & Forgings
- TACLOP aircraft freight loading system
Locomotives
- Commonwealth Railways KA class - 6
- South Australian Railways F class (1902) - 10
- Tasmanian Government Railways Q class - 6
- Tasmanian Government Railways R class - 4
- Industrial steam locomotives, 2 ft (610 mm) (0-6-2) - 4
- Proserpine Mill No 1 (1939)
- Chiverton at Kalamia (1938)
- Carstairs at Inkerman Mill
- Tully at North Eton No 6 (1941)
See also
References
- ^ "Advertising". The Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 26 October 1916. p. 5. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ^ "Engineering Works". The Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 24 January 1934. p. 30. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
- Bunyip. Gawler, SA: National Library of Australia. 16 April 1915. p. 2. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ^ James Martin & Co Phoenix Foundry Town of Gawler
- ^ "Tariff Revision". The News. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 14 January 1925. p. 6 Edition: Home. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- ^ a b Susan Marsden, 'Perry, Sir Frank Tennyson (1887–1965)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 2000, accessed online 9 December 2014
- ^ Sugar cane transport Light Railway Research Society of Australia
- ISBN 0 9589111 0 X
- ^ a b Johns Perry Limited Boral
- ^ "Johns Perry Limited (JPL)". deListed AUSTRALIA. Retrieved 26 December 2017.