37. Australia: Twentieth Century Building Materials
Standard Brick and Tile Company Limited, Melbourne, letter book 1912-14.
Goodlet & Smith Ltd. [Illustrated Catalogue]. Sydney 1910. The title is unclear, but the words 'Illustrated Catalogue' are highlighted in the introductory paragraph.
Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Australian Gypsum Limited. Sydney 1924.
The South Australian Building and Allied Trades Directory. Adelaide 1926.
J S Gawler [ed]. The Architects' and Builders' Index (Victorian Edition). Melbourne 1928. Defective copy, bound with duplicate and omitted pages.
(p) Page Manufacturing Co. Illustrated Catalogue of Page Manufacturing Co's Patent "Page" Cooking Stoves. Page Manufacturing Co, Geelong 1926. [Link]
(p) R Fowler Ltd. Catalogue of Fowler Enamelled Fireclay Ware. Marrickville [NSW] 1935. [Link]
Nonporite Pty. Ltd. Nonporite Industrial and Technical Products. Hawthorn [Victoria] no date [c1940]. [Link]
Sisalkraft Handbook of Useful Specifications. Sisalkraft, no place or date, ?Sydney c 1940. [Link]
(p) A N Hambly. Thermoplastic Synthetic Resins [reprint from the Proceedingsof the Society of Chemical Industry] Melbourne 1942.
(p) R.T. Products. The 'Windmill' (Pat. & Reg.) Rotary Clothes Hoist. [single sheet flier] Nunawading [Victoria], no date [?c1950].
(p) D V Isaacs. An Interim Analysis of the Strengths of Masonry Block Walls[Commonwealth Experimental Building Station duplicated document no 14]. Sydney 1947.
T.N. Chuck Wire Fence & Gate Co. Pty. Ltd. Church Metal Gates and Fences Catalogue No. 16. Brunswick [Victoria] no date [c 1950]. [Link]
(p) Tribilt Pty Ltd. Catalogue of Triton Houses, &c. Tribilt, Melbourne 1956. [Link]
(p) Tribilt Pty Ltd. Catalogue of Houses by Tribilt, &c (Tribilt, Port Melbourne 1958) [plus insert]. [Link]
(p) Tribilt Pty Ltd. Tribilt Pty Ltd (Tribilt, Port Melbourne April 1973) [pasted insert with August 1973 prices] [Link]
D V Isaacs. Gypsum-Plaster Wall Panels[Commonwealth Experimental Building Station special report no 20]. Sydney 1959.
(p) Aychar Proprietary Limited. Pre-Cast Fire-Resisting Structural Gypsum Wall Panels. Aychar, Moorabbin [Victoria], no date [?c 1960).
Kenneth Shugg Joinery Pty Ltd, 4 data sheets (Shugg, Oakleigh [Victoria] no date, c 1984) ‘Lyons Window Details’; ‘Sashless Double Hung Window Details’; ‘Specification Sashless’; ‘Standard & Detail Windows. Details’.
Richard Brady & Sons Pty. Ltd. Richard Brady & Sons Pty. Ltd. [loose leaf folder with technical details of roller grilles, shutters &c] Sydney 1988.
Ramsays Catalogue
W L Richardson [ed]. Ramsay's Architectural Catalogue. Ramsay Standard Catalogue Service, Melbourne 1931. First edition, copy no 1002. [Link]
W L Richardson [ed], Ramsay's Architectural and Engineering Catalogue. Ramsay Standard Catalogue Service Pty Ltd, Melbourne 1940. Don Ward's copy.
W L Richardson [ed], Ramsay's Architectural and Engineering Catalogue (first post-war ed, Ramsay Standard Catalogue Service Pty Ltd, Melbourne 1947.
F W Ware & W L Richardson [eds]. Ramsay's Architectural and Engineering Catalogue. Ramsay Standard Catalogue Service, Melbourne 1949.
F W Ware & W L Richardson [eds]. Ramsay's Architectural and Engineering Catalogue. Ramsay Standard Catalogue Service.Melbourne 1954.
F W Ware [ed], Ramsay's Architectural and Engineering Catalogue. Ramsay Standard Catalogue Service Pty Ltd, Melbourne 1957.
Building Stones
R T Baker. Building and Ornamental Stones of Australia. Sydney 1915. Two copies, one limp bound, one hard, the latter inscribed by the author to the Hon Arthur Griffith MLA. [Link]
R L Jack. The Building Stones of South Australia[Geological Survey of South Australia, bulletin no 10]. Adelaide 1925. [Link]
Victorian Building Stones. Melbourne 1949 [reprint].
Cement and Concrete
(p) [Midget Giant] Durable Cement Block Machine Co. Postcard, no date, but inscribed 1906. The obverse shows a concrete block structure. The reverse has a small illustration of the Midget Giant machine, plus text.
(p) The Midget Giant Concrete Block Making Company Propty. Limited. Brochure, no place or date [Melbourne 1909].
(p) Kandos Cement Company Limited. The Manufacture of Portland Cement. Sydney 1924. [Link]
(p) [J T Knox] South Gippsland Quarries, &c, &c. [broadside, advertising South Gippsland Quarries, Leongatha; Louden barns and equipment; the Papec ensilage cutter &c]. Leongatha [Victoria], no date [1930s].
(p) David Mitchell Estate. "Limil": its use in the Building Trade. Melbourne, no date [c1935]
(p) Atlas Portland Cement (Australia) Limited. Prospectus. Sydney 1938.
Swan Portland Cement Limited. Cement Concrete and its Use. Rivervale [Western Australia], no date [1940s]. [Link]
(p) Nunawading Timber Co. Pty. Ltd. Ready Cut Homes. Blackburn [Victoria] no date [?c 1950]. Includes material on masonry veneer. [Link]
(p) Nunawading Timber Co. Pty. Ltd. Masonry Veneer. Blackburn [Victoria] no date [?c 1950]. [Link]
(p) Hall & Pyne Pty Ltd. Rapid Concrete Moulding Machines. Sydney,] no date [?c 1950]. [Link]
(p) 'Ajax' House-Builder Cement Block Machine [published by the retailers, McPherson's Ltd of Melbourne & Sydney]. Melbourne, no date [?c1935]. [Link]
Humes Limited Catalogue. Melbourne 1958.
Wallboards
(f) The Story of Masonite. Sydney, no date [c 1938].
(p) Masonite Corporation (Australia) Ltd. 150 Answers to 150 Often-Asked Questions about Masonite Presdwood. Melbourne 1935. [Link]
(p) For Comfortable Australian Homes (Celotex Company, Sydney, no date).
(p) Celotex News,no 3012-3. Sydney ?1930.
Celotex Insulating Boards. Sydney, no date [?c1930]. Refers to installations in the Melbourne and Brisbane town halls, [1928 and 1930].
(p) George Hudson Limited. Canec Cane Structural Insulation. Sydney, no date. [Link]
(p) J. Murray More Pty. Ltd. Price List, Canec, September 1935. Melbourne 1935. [Link]
(p) Masonite Corporation (Australia) Pty. Limited. The New Deluxe Marlite Wall Panels. Melbourne, no date. [Link]
E G Lowndes [ed]. South Pacific Enterprise. Sydney 1956. Historical and general account of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company: products include Cane-ite, Timbrock, Gyprock, Fibrock, CSR floor tiles, CSR building plasters, &c. [Link]
James Hardie
(p) James Hardie & Coy. Ltd. Catalogue for Hardie's Fibrous Plaster Sheets. Sydney no date [?c1925]. [Link]
(p) James Hardie & Coy. Ltd. Hardie's Ornamental Fibrous Plaster Ceilings. Sydney no date [?c1930]. [Link]
(p) Catalogue of Hardie's Fibrolite. Rivervale [Western Australia], no date [c 1930: a letter of 1926 is quoted on p 13]. [Link]
(p) James Hardie & Coy. Ltd. The Fibrolite Building Booklet. Sydney 1935. [Link]
(p) James Hardie & Co. Ltd. Price List, July 1st, 1935, Fibrolite Asbestos Cement Sheets. Melbourne 1935. [Link]
(p) Hardie's "Fibrolite" Asbestos-Cement Corrugated Roofing. Sydney 1937. [Link]
(p) James Hardie & Coy. Pty.. Ltd. Price List Hardie's Genuine "Fibrolite" Asbestos Cement Sheets. Sydney 1940. [Link]
(p) Hardies Fibrolite (Asbestos-Cement) Building Products. Rivervale [Western Australia] no date [c 1940?]. Two copies. [Link]
(p) James Hardie & Coy. Ltd. Walls of Enduring Charm. Melbourne, no date. Includes 7 loose illustrations. [Link]
Wunderlich
(p) Wunderlich Patent Ceiling Co. Ltd. You Cannot Afford to Hide the Goods you want to Sell. Sydney, no date [c 1915]. [Link]
(p) Wunderlich Limited. Wunderlich Ceilings a few testimonies to their Acoustic Properties. (Wunderlich, Sydney no date [c 1916])
(p) Wunderlich Ltd. Certain-teed Roofing[swatch of three samples in a hard cover]. Sydney, no date [?c 1920]. [Link]
(p) Wunderlich Limited. Ceilings for Every Room in Every Home. Sydney 1919. [Link]
(p) Wunderlich Limited. Art Metal Ceilings. Sydney 1922. [Link]
Wunderlich Limited, Home Builders' Catalogue of Wunderlich Manufacture. Wunderlich, Sydney 1923..
(p) Wunderlich Limited. Realising Your Dream Home. Sydney 1925. [Link]
(p) Wunderlich Limited. Classic Ceilings of Metal. Sydney 1929. [Link]
(p) Wunderlich Limited. Colour in Wunderlich Products. Sydney 1933. [Link]
(p) Wunderlich Limited. Modern Metal Ceilings. [leaflet M88 1/11/34] Wunderlich Sydney 1934. [copy with price list pasted on]
(p) Wunderlich Limited. The Wunderlich Pattern Book illustrating the complete range of designs in stamped art metal ... 1935. [catalogue M87 January 1935] Wunderlich Sydney 1935
(p) Wunderlich Limited. Price list of Wunderlich Art Metal Ceilings and sundry manufactures of metal. [price list M89 1/6/35] Wunderlich Sydney 1935),
(p) Wunderlich Limited. Wunderlich Deep Corrugated Durabestos. Sydney 1938. [Link]
Wunderlich Limited. Melbourne Branch, Trade Price List. Melbourne 1953. [Link]
Wunderlich Limited. Melbourne Branch, Trade Price List. Melbourne 1964.
Forty Years of Wunderlich Industry. Sydney 1927. [Link]
(p) Wunderlich Limited. Modern Metal Ceilings. Sydney, no date [1955].
Seventy Years of Wunderlich Industry. Melbourne 1957. [Link]
Cyclone
(p) The Cyclone Fence & Gate Book No 16. Melbourne, no date [c 1910]. [Link]
(p) Cyclone Catalogue No. 30. Perth 1934. [Link]
(p) Price List of Cyclone Metal Gates - Fences Bedsteads and Stretchers. Perth 1934. [Link]
Cyclone for Beauty & Protection. [catalogue no 50 (sic)] Melbourne 1939. [Link]
Cyclone Catalogue No. 40. Melbourne 1940. [Link]
Cyclone Fence and Gate Co Pty Ltd. Cyclone Catalogue No. 48 [cover title The Gateway to Quality Products]. Sydney 1937.
Cyclone Fence and Gate Co Pty Ltd. Price List ... Catalogue No. 48. Sydney 1937.
Cyclone Fence and Gate Co Pty Ltd. Catalogue No. 49. Melbourne 1938.
Cyclone Fence and Gate Co Pty Ltd. Catalogue No. 50. Melbourne 1939. [Link]
Cyclone Company of Australia Ltd. Catalogue 51. Melbourne 1958. Includes prefabricated shearing sheds &c.
Metal and metal goods
Frodingham Iron & Steel (Foreign and Colonial) Co. Ltd. Perth 1905. A handbook issued on behalf of the Frodingham Co of Frodingham, near Doncaster, England, by their 'resident representatives and attorneys', Saunders & Stuart, of Perth, Fremantle and Kalgoorlie. [Link]
(p) G E Crane & Sons, Limited, Crane Art Metal Manufacturers. G E Crane & Sons, Limited, Sydney no date [c 1911].
A C Harley & Co. "Sun" Foundry Illustrated Catalogue. 2nd ed, Adelaide 1914. [Link]
Stewarts and Lloyds (Australia) Limited. Pocket Catalogue. Melbourne 1913. [Link]
Stewarts and Lloyds (Australia) Pty Limited. S & L Screwed and Socketed Tubes, &c. Newcastle [New South Wales], no date [c 1935]. Two copies. [Link]
Australian Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company Pty. Limited. Applications of the B.R.C. System of Reinforced Concrete Construction. 2nd. ed., Melbourne 1925. With typescript price lists of 1927 inserted loose. Also 4th ed, 1939: two copies. [Link 1] [Link 2]
A.R.C. Engineering Co. Pty. Ltd. A.R.C. Reinforcements. Melbourne, no date. [Link]
(p) 'Arnold' Improved Oxy-Acetylene Equipment [leaflet]. Melbourne, no date [?c1925]. [Link]
N W Smith . The Comox Welder's Manual[Commonwealth Oxygen & Acetylene Limited]. Balmain [NSW] 1930.
The Steel Improvement Co. Information relative to Impregno, &c. North Sydney, no date [?1930s]. [Link]
Melbourne Iron & Steel Mills Pty Ltd [catalogue]. Melbourne 1936. Two copies. [Link]
(p) A. F. Agnew & Co. Pty. Ltd. Agco Supaluvres in Extruded Aluminium with P.V.C. Weatherseals. Melbourne, no date. [Link]
(p) Hudson's New Price Lists. Hudson, Melboune, October 1940. Two copies.
Comsteel. Commonwealth Steel Company Limited: Plant, Processes and Products at Waratah, N.S.W, together with a Brief History of the Company since 1918. Waratah [New South Wales], no date [c1947]. [Link]
Ovaweld Limited. Welded Wire Fabric for Concrete Reinforcement. Adelaide 1956.
Australuco Aluminium Data. Sydney, no date [c 1956]. [Link]
M H Ellis. Metal Manufactures Limited: a Golden Jubilee History 1916-1966. Sydney 1966.
Plumbing
Daspyl Plumbers' and Engineers' Supplies. Melbourne 1906.
Catalogue "B" of "Daspyl" and other Specialities in Plumbers' and Engineers' Supplies. Melbourne 1917.
(p) John Danks & Son Pty. Ltd. Ideal Hot Water Supply . Melbourne, no date. [Link]
Shanks & Co. Pty. Ltd. Catalogue 26. Sanitary Ware and Appliances. Melbourne 1926. [Link]
John McIlwraith & Co. Pty. Ltd. Trade Price List. February 1939. Melbourne 1939.
John McIlwraith Industries. Ltd. October 1959 Buying Guide. Melbourne 1959.
Hardware & Tools
(p) Harris, Scarfe, Limited. Engineers' Supplies. Adelaide, no date [c 1910].
Colton, Palmer & Preston, Ltd. You are Secure with us for Builders Hardware. Adelaide 1917.
Colton, Palmer & Preston, Ltd. Tools for all Trades Adelaide 1924.
Wm. Bedford Ltd. Catalogue. Brass and Bronzeware. Melbourne, no date [c 1925].
(p) Bevan & Edwards Pty. Ltd. Woodworker's and Sawmill Supplies. Melbourne, no date [?c 1930]. [Link]
Harold Amey. Saw Sharpening: a new and revolutionary method of saw sharpening. Baker & Co. Melbourne, no date [?c 1930]
McLean Bros & Rigg Limited. Catalogue General Hardware &c. Perth, no date [c 1930] Includes the 1921 price list of the Nicholson File Company, p 210, and 'Tilux', p 156].
(p) N L Rigg. Your Money Magnfied in Value. N L Rigg, Melbourne, no date [c 1930]
John Danks & Son Pty. Ltd. Woodworkers' and Builders' Tool Catalogue. Melbourne, no date [?c 1940s].
Patience & Nicholson Ltd. Catalog No. 46. Melbourne 1946.
Goodall & Co. Pty. Ltd. Catalogue No. 5. Sydney 1955. Two copies.
D & W Chandler
(p) D. & W. Chandler Ltd. General Hardware Catalogue. … Melbourne, no date [c 1929]. Incomplete D & W Chandler catalogue, missing the cover and first twenty pages.It appears to be close in date to no 943, but earlier: p 21 is identical with p 31 of no 43. It can be no earlier than 1929 because it includes on p 87 the 'Early Kooka' one level range, which was released by Metters in that year.
D. & W. Chandler Ltd. General Hardware Catalogue. Issue No 43. Melbourne, no date [c 1930]. This is undated, but the inside cover refers to the company's existence for over half a century since its foundation in 1936.
D. & W. Chandler Ltd. General Hardware Catalogue. Issue No 48. Melbourne, no date [c 1936]. Undated, but refers to 'the past 60 years'. [2 copies]
D. & W. Chandler Ltd. General Hardware Catalogue. Issue No 51. Melbourne 1939.
McPherson's
McPherson's Proprietary Limited Engineers' and Manufacturers' Catalogue No. 34. Sydney, no date [c 1930s - after 1933, ref p 271]. Fisher's Old, Fine & Rare Books catalogue 26 no 451 [1995] identifies catalogue 34 as being of 1934.
McPherson's Limited. Melbourne 1949.
McPherson's Limited. Melbourne 1955.
McPherson's Home Workshop Guide. Melbourne, no date [c 1955]. Two different editions, neither dated.
McPherson's Limited. Centenary Catalogue. Melbourne, 1960.
McPherson's Industrial Catalogue. Melbourne, no date [?c 1965].
Wormwald
Wormwald Bros. Limited. Protection Against Fire. Sydney 1924.
Wormwald Bros. Ltd. Fire Waste and its Prevention. 2nd ed, Sydney, no date [?c 1924]. The last date internally is 24 February 1924 (see p 12).
Broken Hill Proprietary
Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd., Hand-Book of Rolled Steel Sections manufactured by the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. at their Iron & Steel Works Newcastle, Australia, &c. BHP, Melbourne 1919.
Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Limited. Hand Book of Rolled Steel Sections and Other Products. Melbourne 1924.
Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited. Handbook for Engineers, &c. Melbourne 1930. Cover title: 'Shapes and Sections'.
Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited. Brochure of Special Steels. Melbourne 1934.
Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited. Shapes & Sections Handbook. Melbourne 1937. Two copies.
Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited. Shapes & Sections. Melbourne 1952.
Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited. Steel Shapes & Sections. Melbourne 1961.
Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited. Rolled Steel Sections Properties and Data, Technical Edition. Melbourne, no date [1960s].
Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited. BHP-AIS Hot Rolled Carbon Steel Sections. Melbourne 1969.
Fifty Years of Industry and Enterprise 1885-1935. [B.H.P. Reviewjubilee number] no place 1935.
(p) P McHenry. B.H.P. Sydney 1941 [published by the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia in support of its claim for a special minimum wage].
[Clive Turnbull]. Seventy-five Years of B.H.P. Development in Industry. No place 1960.
Giant Strides. Melbourne 1965.
(p) Roland Walton and Company. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited: How Much are their shares worth? Sydney 1966.
John Lysaght
John Lysaght (Aust.) Ltd. The Referee. 12th ed, Sydney 1921.
John Lysaght (Aust.) Ltd. The Referee. 13th ed, Sydney 1923.
John Lysaght (Aust.) Ltd. The Referee. 14th ed, Sydney 1924.
John Lysaght (Aust.) Ltd. The Referee. 15th ed, Sydney 1927.
John Lysaght (Australia) Pty. Ltd. Lysaght's Referee. 17th ed, Sydney 1938.
John Lysaght (Australia) Pty. Ltd. Lysaght's Referee. 18th ed, Sydney 1950.
John Lysaght (Australia) Pty. Ltd. Lysaght's Referee. Centenary edition, Sydney 1957.
John Lysaght (Australia) Pty. Ltd. Lysaght's Referee. 21st ed, Sydney 1961.
Lysaght Referee. 22nd ed, Sydney 1963. Two copies.
Lysaght Referee. 23rd ed, Sydney 1969.
Lysaght Referee. 24th ed, Sydney 1972.
Lysaght Referee. 25th ed, Sydney 1974.
The Referee. 28th ed, Sydney 1988.
Lysaght's Works Pty Ltd. Lysaght's Silver Jubilee 1921-1946. Sydney 1946.
(p) John Lysaght [ephemera]. Three leaflets of about 1950: 'Red Orb Lysaght's Rigid Roofing Sheets', 'Notes on Galvanized Tanks', 'Recommendations.' These are undated, but came with a copy of the 18th edition of the Referee of 1950.
Lysaght Venture. Sydney 1955.
Paints and finishes
(p) Pabco Roofing (White Malthoid) on Residence at Ballarat, Victoria ... Postcard, no date.
Michael Nairn & Company (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. Nairn's Australian Made Linoleum 1937-1938. Auburn [NSW] no date [1937].
(p) Michael Nairn & Co (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. The Care of your Nairn's Linoleum Floor (or Linoleum tiles). Auburn [NSW] no date. [Link]
Australia, Munitions Supply Laboratories. Paint Notes, vol 2 nos 4 & 5 (April & May 1947). Maribyrnong [Victoria]. Contains a great deal of material on German paint technology, doubtless being taken up by the victors.
(p) Rossella Plastic Floor Covering for every Room in the Home. Sydney no date [?1960s]. [Link]
Glass
Looking Backwards and Forwards through Glass [ACI history]. Sydney no date [c 1941].
(p) T.S. Gill & Son Limited, Sandblast and Mirrors by Gill (T S Gill, East Preston [Victoria], no date)
Oliver-Davey Glass Co. Pty. Ltd. Sanblasted Panels [two pin file with cover page and illustrations, cyclostyled typescript pricelist at the front] (Oliver-Davey, Port Melbourne, no date]
R.M.S. Pty. Ltd., Sandblast Designs [two pin file of illustrations] (RMS, Hawthorn [Victoria], no date.
Silverwood & Beck Pty. Ltd. Sandblast Designs [bound catalogue of illustrations with a cyclostyled price list of 18 October 1954 taped in the front]. Stamped by the Wodonga Joinery Works.
Electricity and appliances
(p) James Alston & Sons Pty. Ltd. Instructions for Erecting and Fixing "Alston" Patent Steel Windmills. [Melbourne] 1916.
(p) Edison Swan Electric Co. Limited. Ediswan Electric Cookers and Domestic Appliances. Melbourne, no date [?1920s].
(p) Quirk's Victory Light Co. Quirk's Air Gas Stoves . Sydney, no date [?c1928]. [Link]
(p) Parkinson Stove Co. (Aust.) Ltd. Catalogue of Parkinson Gas Fires. Sydney, no date. Together with a loose price list of 1 May 1934.
(p) Parkinson Stove Co. (Aust.) Ltd. Catalogue of Gas Cookers, Ranges, Grillers, Boiling Rings, etc. Melbourne, no date [c1930].
(p) Metters K F B. Pty. Ltd. Electric Cooking and Heating Appliabnces. Melbourne 1934.
British General Electric Co. Pty. Ltd. B.G.E. General Catalogue. 4th ed, Sydney 1949 .
See also:
(sec 13) Magicoal, Heating ofTo-Day [Warburton-Franki] (sec 16) Stewarts and Lloyds 1903-1953 (sec 37) Turnbull, Fibre Boards (sec 39) Jeffries, Australian Building Estimator, 1907 Mayes, Australian Builders &c. Price Book, 1909, 1914, 1927 Mayes, Australian Architects &c. Price Book, 1951 (sec 40) Hardie, Fibrolite Homes Wunderlich Durabestos Homes Wunderlich, Designs of Small Homes