A list of manufacturing companies founded in South Australia, many now forgotten but "household names" in their day. It does not include local affiliates of multinational companies, such as General Motors Holden, Kelvinator and Philips Electrical Industries. Nor does it (yet) include food and beverage companies such as AMSCOL, Chapmans, Coopers, Glen Ewin and Haighs or pharmaceuticals and toiletries such as Bickfords, Cromptons and Fauldings.
Business Name | Founded | Ceased | Founder/s | Factory address | SA-manufactured products | Notes |
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Actil | 1941 | Actil Ave., Woodville | cotton fabric bed sheets | for Australian Cotton Textile Industries Ltd. | ||
Bagshaw Ltd. | John Stokes Bagshaw | farm machinery, inc. Ridley's "stripper" | ||||
Castalloy | 1948 | 76 Mooringe Ave., North Plympton | aluminium alloy castings [1] pressure cookers alloy wheels | |||
Clipsal | 1920 | Alfred Gerard | electrical conduit fittings mains plugs and sockets switchgear | |||
Coldstream | 1926 [2] | David Garvie | 82–86 Mary St., Unley | refrigerators | ||
Dobbie Dico | 1862 | A. W. Dobbie | Sultram Place, Adelaide | brass castings water meters | ||
Griffin Press | 1858 | contract printers | subsidiary of Advertiser Ltd. | |||
Hills Industries | 1948 | Lance Hill | South Rd., Edwardstown | Hills hoists TV antennae | ||
Horwood Bagshaw | Joel Horwood | farm machinery | ||||
Humes | Walter Hume | concrete pipes | ||||
James Martin & Co | James Martin | farm machinery railway engines | ||||
K.B.C. | c. 1947? | Kenneth Bowes | 17 Woodlands Tce., Edwardstown | die-cast parts for auto makers hand-operated clothes wringer pistol drills (240VAC and 32VDC models) [3] domestic food mixers | for Kenneth Bowes Co. | |
Lightburn & Co | Albert Henry Lightburn | washing machines hydraulic jacks concrete mixers Zeta cars | ||||
May Brothers and Company | Alfred May (John) Frederick May | mining machinery farm machinery | ||||
Metters | 1895? | Frederick Metters | 7–25 Manchester St., Mile End South | windpumps wood stoves gas stoves bakers' ovens | ||
Minelab | metal detectors | |||||
Perry Engineering | 1899 | 1969 | Samuel Perry | railway engines | ||
Pope Products | 1935 | Barton Pope | 13–23 Pope St., Beverley | garden sprinklers washing machines electric motors | ||
Rossi Boots | 1910 | Arthur Edward Rossiter | Dunn's Lane, Unley now Churchill Road, Kilburn | boots and shoes | for Rossiters Ltd. | |
Sabco | 1892 [4] | Betting St., Albert Park | brooms and brushes | for South Australian Brush Co. | ||
Scott Bonnar & Co | 1920 [2] | Scott Bonnar Malcolm Cornelius Bonnar | Holland Street, Thebarton | brass castings electric lawnmowers hand mowers | ||
Simpson | 1853 | Alfred Simpson | 41–49 Pirie St., Adelaide (later) Simpson Ave., Dudley Park | tinware wood stoves gas stoves fireproof safes washing machines | ||
Sola Optical | spectacle lenses | |||||
Solver Paints | 1931 | W. P. Crowhurst | 95–97 Gouger St., Adelaide | house paints | ||
Sportco | 837 South Road, St. Marys | .22 rifles [5] | for Sporting Arms Ltd. | |||
Wakefield Press | 1942 | books, esp. academic and SA history | ||||
Wallis Refrigeration | 1935 [2] | Hughie McKenzie Wallis | 136 South Rd., Richmond | kerosine refrigerators electric refrigerators | ||
Mistral Appliances | 1968 | airfryers kitchen appliances cooling systems | ||||
Gerard Lighting [6] | Simon Gerard | lighting appliances |
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