List of South Australian manufacturing businesses

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
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
Entech Group	1986			7 Marlow Road, Keswick	PCB's, membrane keypads, electronic products
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

References

^ "Well, what is it?". The News. Vol. 61, no. 9, 457. South Australia. 1 December 1953. p. 19. Retrieved 4 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Big Variety in Electrical Appliances". The Advertiser. Vol. 94, no. 29, 142. South Australia. 6 March 1952. p. 13 (Royal Adelaide Exhibition Supplement). Retrieved 15 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Advertising". The Chronicle. Vol. 92, no. 51, 194. South Australia. 7 July 1949. p. 12. Retrieved 15 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "About sabco".
^ "Premier to see first mass-made shotguns". The News. Vol. 62, no. 9, 518. South Australia. 11 February 1954. p. 10. Retrieved 16 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Chappell, Trevor (1 August 2012). "Gerard Lighting shares soar 26 per cent". news.com.au. Retrieved 8 March 2022.

[1] "Well, what is it?". The News. Vol. 61, no. 9, 457. South Australia. 1 December 1953. p. 19. Retrieved 4 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

[variety-2] "Big Variety in Electrical Appliances". The Advertiser. Vol. 94, no. 29, 142. South Australia. 6 March 1952. p. 13 (Royal Adelaide Exhibition Supplement). Retrieved 15 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

[3] "Advertising". The Chronicle. Vol. 92, no. 51, 194. South Australia. 7 July 1949. p. 12. Retrieved 15 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

[4] "About sabco".

[5] "Premier to see first mass-made shotguns". The News. Vol. 62, no. 9, 518. South Australia. 11 February 1954. p. 10. Retrieved 16 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

[6] Chappell, Trevor (1 August 2012). "Gerard Lighting shares soar 26 per cent". news.com.au. Retrieved 8 March 2022.

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