PHOTOGRAPH: METTERS EXHIBIT, ADELAIDE SHOW

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c. 1950

Overview

Black and white photo of Metters display centre at the Adelaide Show. The flat-roofed building has two huge 'Metters' signs on its façade and & two side's. Two windmills stand in front on either side of the building, with a large 'Metters' sign joining them.
Another smaller sign below on the wire enclosure reads 'TRACTORS & FARM MACHINERY' 'In this special display are but portion of the long line of international harvester products MADE IN AUSTRALIA'. A steel 'Squatter' storage tank is prominently displayed in the centre of the enclosure. Museum holds two copies of this photo.

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-43-1993.264

Item type

Photographs

Material

Photographic Paper

Chemicals

Width

207 mm

Height or length

255 mm