PHOTOGRAPH: METTERS EXHIBIT, ADELAIDE SHOW -SQUATTERS TANK & SPRAYER

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c. 1950

Overview

Black and white photo showing farm machinery under cover at the Adelaide Agricultural Show. In the foreground is a sprayer, the body housing of the engine differs from that of the 'Air Mist Concentrated Sprayer' (see 1993.223 for comparison). In right foreground is a huge tank bearing a sign 'Metters STEEL WATER STORAGE (Squatters) TANKS, 5,000 - 50,000 gallons capacity'

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-43-1993.262

Item type

Photographs

Material

Photographic Paper

Chemicals

Width

254 mm

Height or length

207 mm