PHOTOGRAPH: DEMOLITION OF METTERS FACTORY, 1986
1986Black and white photo showing Metter's factory yard strewn with sheets of corrugated iron and other building materials. The factory building in the background is still standing, the chimney/smoke stack/cooling tower? Is intact. A mobile crane is busy at the centre right removing parts of the building. Metter's factory was situated in Salvado Road, where Home Base stands today.
REVERSE: Handwritten in lead pencil ' Demolition of Metters Wembley, November-December 1986'.
'*This photograph is Copyright Post Newspapers and cannot be reproduced without permission'.
Metters' Wembley Factory opened on Salvado Road in 1937.
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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