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

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c. 1950

Overview

Black and white photo of Metters' exhibit at the Perth Show. The building features the company's logo, a model of the kookaburra, standing above the facade, as well as three flags, Australi and & possibly the Union and k & New Zealand flags. The company's name appears in large black letters on the white façade, other advertisements on the edge of the canopy are faintly visible (stoves, baths, etc.) The same four windmills appear in this photo as in the previous one (P93.66) but the other farming implements are slightly different. The crowd of people in the vicinity is also larger in 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-43-1993.267

Item type

Photographs

Material

Photographic Paper

Chemicals

Width

214 mm

Height or length

156 mm