PHOTOGRAPH: METTERS' EXHIBIT, PERTH ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW, C.1950

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c. 1950

Overview

Black and white photo showing Metters' display building and surrounding exhibit. The company's name is written in large letters on the white façade, surmounted by a large kookaburra. On the edge of the canopy are further advertisements for stoves, baths, etc. 'The quality name in cooking appliances' at centre. To the right of the building are four windmills advertising 'Metters Nuoil' and 'Metters K', 'windmills' and a water tank and farming machinery such as plough-shares. There are trees in the background and groups of people in the foreground.

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-43-1993.266

Item type

Photographs

Material

Photographic Paper

Chemicals

Width

214 mm

Height or length

156 mm