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PHOTOGRAPH: (Copy) METTERS SHOWROOMS, 847-851 HAY STREET, PERTH

1929
Overview

Black and white photo showing interior of Hay Street showrooms lit up by rows of lights. The numbers 847-851 are painted prominently above the double entrance doors. Metters' business hours are partly legible on the glass panels of these doors, and Metters' 'Steemkleen' appliance is displayed right behind. A windmill wheel practically fills the space behind the left window. In the right hand window there is a large variety of Metters' products, such as stoves, coppers and a gas heater inside a high wooden fire-place.
A small notice board at the front of the right hand window gives details of cooking demonstrations to be held in the Metters' demonstration room on the ground floor. See also P93.60 [missing 28/8/03]

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.

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Registration number
cwa-org-43-1993.265.2
Item type
Width
272 mm
Height or length
129 mm
Inscriptions and markings

Illustrations Ltd

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Statement of significance

local and commercial history

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