Mintern Products P/L of Richmond, Melbourne
Mintern Garden Cultivator and Seeder © Ozwrenches
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Introduction
Mintern products P/L Richmond, Melbourne.
Information is sourced from directories and newspapers.
First ref found is for Mintern & Brehaut at 166b Bridge Rd, Richmond as Agricultural Implement Makers in 1930 (1)
Next we have a reference in the Argus newspaper, 16 June 1931, page 8.
Supporting proposed import duties.
"Mr William A Mintern director of Mintern and Brehaut Pty Ltd Bridge
road Richmond supporting the proposed
duties said that his company had been making garden tools for four months
and had received much encouragement.
It had been able to become established only by reason of the tariff"(2)
Next we have Mintern Products P/L listed from 1938 (at 166b Bridge Rd, Richmond) to 1967 (at Lexton Rd Box Hill) (3)
Next we have a newspaper report of a fire: The Argus (Melbourne, Tuesday 5 July 1938, page 1".
Richmond Blaze... £13,000 FIRE IN FACTORY. Most of the factory
of Mintern's Pty. Ltd., in Bridge
road, Richmond, was destroyed last night by fire. Stock worth £5,000
was burnt, and machinery valued at £8,000 was damaged.
The factory supplies garden implements to many city hardware stores. Forty
employees of the factory will probably be temporarily
out of work as a result of the fire. Breaking out in a storeroom, where
tons of newly made implements were stacked, the blaze
rapidly spread to the metal grinding section of the factory. £13,000
Next we have a report of a new Company being established:
The Argus (Melbourne,... Tuesday 19 March 1940, page 11.
The following company has applied for registration -
MINTERN PRODUCTS PTY LTD merchants W Horsfall promoter and proposed director
W K Horsfall also a proposed director. Registered office 98-100 Coppin
street Richmond Capital £25 000 in £1 shares. To acquire plant
machinery and stock to the value of £4000 from Wm Horsfall Pty Ltd,
98 Coppin street Richmond Purchase consideration £4000..
Various S & M Directories (Victorian)
Excerpts from "The Argus" from http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/
Mintern garden cultivator spanner #3 - similar to Planet Jr #3 are quite common in Australia. See cat pick above. To date, none have been seen for Mintern & Brehaut, and the smaller spanner numbered 5430 in the above catalogue has not been sighted either.
A group of Mintern no 3 Garden Cultivator Spanners with a "Treble R" , thought to be by Mintern also. MNote the various original colours and that there are two jaw sizes© oxwrenches.
Mintern & Brehaut heavy cast iron wheel on a farm implement © ozwrenches