PHOTOGRAPH: METTERS EXHIBIT AT PERTH ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW, 1928

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1928

Overview

Black and white photograph of Metters exhibit at Perth Show. A small tile roofed building has a large 'METTERS STOVES' sign mounted above. At right is a gentleman standing next to a car behind Metters Motor Gate and in the left foreground in a fenced off area is a windmill wheel. Other products are displayed in the front yard and stoves can be seen through the open doorway of the building. There is a another gentleman standing in the left of the doorway in a waiscoat, long sleeve shirt and hat and a tie.
'METTERS LTD 'NUOIL' WINDMILL HEADS' and 'GAS STOVES BATH HEATERS' etc. are advertised on boards to the left and right front of the building. A third gentleman wearing a suit and a hat can be seen on the edge of the left side of the photograph. A huge sign METTERS SQUATTER TANKS can be seen on a tank behind a windmill in the background. See also P.93.40
REVERSE: Written in pencil: 'Oct. 1928 Royal Show.' 'A good range of Mantels, P.E. Foods, + Gas Stoves are shown/ inside the building./ The mill heads were working/ together with the/ large mill wheel shown in the foreground.'
There is an ink stamp 'R.G. ILLIDGE, Commercial, Stud (illegible- Pres?)Photo (illegible word) / 17 HOWARD STREET, PERTH / Phone A8517'
There is a handwritten number underneath '322.S'

Historical information

Metters was an Australian company established in Adelaide in 1891 by Frederick Metters (1858-1937). Metter's patented and manufactured 'top-fire' wood stove's and ovens and opened a showroom in Hay Street Perth in 1894. By 1896 as part of a national expansion effort, a second fourteen acre manufacturing plant was opened in Wellington Street, Perth known from late 1986 as the Great Western Foundry. In 1898 Frederick, took on Harry Spring as a business partner and re-named the organization F. Metters and Company. During the 1890's Metters' output expanded to include water tanks, wind mills, bath's, bath heaters, grates, washing coppers, sinks, domestic irons as well as galvanizing and copper smithing services.
In 1907 Metter's sold his interest in the company to Spring, renaming the business again to Metters Limited. In early 1911 Metters’ Perth plant moved to a larger site at Subiaco. Nationally the company expanded its output into other manufacturing areas including agricultural implements such as tanks, troughs, cultivators, ploughs and posthole diggers.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1993.268

Item type

Photographs

Material

Photographic Paper

Chemicals

Width

211 mm

Height or length

159 mm