Name/TitleInterior : John Danks factory, South Melbourne, c. 1920
About this objectThis photograph has been taken inside one of the John Danks & Sons factory buildings located at Moray Street, South Melbourne. The workers are engaged in a machine engineering process.
John Danks (1828-1902) arrived in Australia with his brothers in 1857 and set up a plumbing business in 1859, which grew into a company supplying and manufacturing a variety of plumbing and engineering products such as brassware, pumps, windmills and bells.
From 1859, the company's first premises were in Bourke Street in the city, but then expanded to Moray Street north, South Melbourne, in the early 1870s. A newspaper report of a visit to the Moray Street factory in 1894 described the "immense capital laid down in materials and premises."
Following John Danks' death in 1902 his son Aaron (1861-1928), later Sir Aaron, led the company.
One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund.
For more information about this image contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria
MakerT.W. Cameron (Company)
Maker RoleSlide Maker
Inscription and MarksInscribed : "WORKERS IN JOHN DANKS & CO"
Measurements8.2 x 8.2 cm
Period1920-1930
Object TypePhotograph
Subject and Association KeywordsSelby, Isaac, 1859-1956
Subject and Association KeywordsSouth Melbourne (Vic.)
Subject and Association KeywordsEngineering firms
Subject and Association KeywordsMetalwork and metalworking
Subject and Association KeywordsJohn Danks & Sons (firm)
Subject and Association KeywordsDanks, John, 1828-1902
Subject and Association KeywordsDanks, Sir Aaron Turner, 1861-1928
Named CollectionImages collection
Object numberGS-BCS-37
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