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Felton, Grimwade & Co. Factory
Started by Alfred Felton and Frederick Grimwade, Felton Grimwade & Co are best known for distributing the successful ‘Bosisto’s Oil of Eucalyptus’, which they initiated in 1865. The company’s main warehouse was located in Flinders Lane, but the Ingles Street property was their chemical works which was close to the North Sandridge Railway station. The main building on the site was the sulphuric acid works. The company also produced poison to target the rapidly growing rabbit problem in Australia in the late 19th Century. The Felton Grimwade factory was eventually taken over by the Australian Motor Industries in 1954, and remained for a further 20 years, manufacturing predominantly Rambler’s, Triumph’s and some minor work on Mercedes Benz cars. Frederick Grimwade’s son, Russell Grimwade after helping run the family business, became enormously influential and played a significant role in the development of Australia’s scientific research community.
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Port Melbourne Fire Station
This Fire Station was opened in 1939 and designed by prominent Melbourne architect, Harry Winbush. Winbush later went on to become the head of the Architectural School at RMIT and the President of the Victorian chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. Winbush is best known for the grandstand at Windy Hill Football ground. The fire station has an attached residence that occupies the corner of the site, and looks remarkably similar to the houses across the road in the Garden City estate, and the nearby Dunstan Estate. The fire station is still operational and is MFB station number 39.
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Disco Manufacturing
Disco Manufacturing was designed and built in 1940 as a factory to supply car parts to the nearby General Motors Holdens Plant, manufacturing items like spark plugs. The factory was late acquired by the GMH and operated as a factory making electrical parts for their cars. The original DISCO logo can be seen on the Williamstown Road façade, next to the Bob Jane TMart building. Disco manufacturing was at one stage, the largest producer of automotive electrical items in the world.
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Whelan the Wrecker
Started in the 1890s by James Paul Whelan, Whelan the Wrecker was an infamous company that was involved in the demolition of many of Melbourne’s most significant heritage sites. By far the largest demolition company in Victoria, Whelan was involved in demolishing such buildings as the CML building, the Old Melbourne Hospital and the Federal Coffee Palace. Their notorious business sign ‘Whelan the Wrecker is Here’ was often seen around Melbourne, and became associated with not only demolition, but urban renewal. The company folded, but now continues in this factory in Port Melbourne. This image shows the Whelan sign clearly on the old Clarendon House in East Melbourne, demolished in the 1960s.
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