Drawing of the Swallow and Ariell Factory, looking down Princes St, 1885. “By the early 1880s the Port Melbourne factory extended to 3 acres (1.2ha), and the company owned flourmills and sugar plantations in the Goulburn Valley and Northern Queensland. With no equal outside Great Britain, Swallow and Ariell was the fifth largest biscuit company in the world, manufacturing over 100 varieties, including the common ship biscuit (an original product) and meat biscuits (apparently taken by Burke and Wills on their ill-fated expedition)." – Faye Anderson, Encyclopedia of Melbourne online.
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