QUEEN VICTORIA MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY CHS 35 SALISBURY S FOUNDRY COLLECTION Foundries, Launceston Engineering, Launceston INTRODUCTION THE RECORDS 1.Legal Records 2.Letterbooks, Local 3.Letterbooks, Intercolonial 4.Letterbook, Orders 5.Correspondence 6.Correspondence re Mining, Machinery etc 7.Invoice Books 8.Financial Records 9.Employees Note Books 10.Publications 11.Printed Notices 12.Miscellaneous Items 13.Ephemera OTHER SOURCES
INTRODUCTION Ishmael Ernest Eldon Salisbury, who arrived in Launceston from Castlemaine, Victoria, in 1876, bringing with him a high reputation as a manufacturer of mining machinery, established a foundry and engineering works at the Esplanade and William Street. In 1878 Salisbury, Armstrong & Co (late of Victoria) advertised the Tasmanian Foundry, Queen s Wharf. They were engineers, millwrights, iron and brass founders, blacksmiths, among their manufactures steam engines, mining machinery of every description, flour mill, saw mill and agricultural machinery. 1 After Mr Salisbury died in 1883, Henry McKenzie managed the works. 2 In 1886 Salisbury s Foundry & Engineering Works, Wharf and William Street, ironfounders, millwrights, engineers, blacksmith and boiler makers, included ovens and kitchen ranges in their list of manufactures. The foundry was the sole maker of Kayser s Patent Tin-dressing appliances, which it supplied to the Mount Bischoff and Stanhope tin mines in Tasmania and tin mining companies in Queensland. 3 By 1900 iron work turned out by the firm comprised the major part of the Mount Bischoff plant. 4 In 1888 J T McDonald, Henry McKenzie and James Scott took over the business, which absorbed Scott s Cimitiere Street engineering business, and Archibald Campbell also joined the firm, which was called Salisbury, Scott & Co. Operations were transferred to a large block of land fronting on lower Charles Street, where the yards and workshops occupied about an acre and a half and 80 men were employed. In addition to mining equipment, by 1900 marine and engineering had become an important branch of the firm s operations. 5 Salisbury s Foundry Company s substantial brick building at 31 Charles Street was built by J & T Gunn in 1896. 6 In the last three decades of the nineteenth century Tasmanian experienced a mining boom and as the records testify by 1900 most major mines and numerous smaller enterprises were using Salisbury s manufactures. Orders for complete plants came from companies in other colonies, notably from North Queensland, the Victorian tin fields and New Zealand. 7 In 1902 William R P Salisbury, I E E Salisbury s son, became managing director of the firm and with R V W Green and others, purchased the business from McKenzie and Campbell. The best known work undertaken by the firm was the construction of a duplicate span of Kings Bridge, Launceston, successfully floated into position in 1904. 8 1 Walch s Tasmanian almanac, 1878, advertising sheet, p. 57 2 Cyclopedia of Tasmania, Hobart, 1900, vol. 2, p. 119 3 Walch s Tasmanian almanac, 1886, advertising section, p. 83 4 Cyclopedia of Tasmania, p.119 5 Cyclopedia of Tasmania, pp 119-120 6 Miranda Morris-Nunn and C B Tassell, Launceston s industrial heritage, Launceston, 1983, pp. 428-429 7 Cyclopedia of Tasmania, p. 119 8 Australian dictionary of biography, vol. 11, article on W R P Salisbury (1874-1944)
During the Second World War the firm carried out a considerable amount of defence work, manufacturing munitions and marine engineering work for shipyards in Launceston, Hobart and South Australia. Other work included products used in the construction of bridge equipment and pontoons employed by the forces in Pacific war assaults. 9 Apart from mining companies, the Foundry s clients have included the Launceston Municipal Council, the former Hydro-Electric Department, the Electrolytic Zinc Company and other industries. In 1996 Jackson Motor Company bought Salisbury Engineering s premises for $700,000 and the firm moved to Rocherlea. 10 Production focussed on general engineering work, including making guards for logging machinery, excavators and skidders and the manufacture of log grabs which were sold interstate. The firm closed in 2000, due to a downturn in business and rising overhead costs. 11 The collection was donated to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in 1993. 9 Matt O Brien, Tasmanian s war effort, Hobart, facsimile ed., 1995 10 Examiner, 6 December 1996, p. 1 11 Examiner, 26 October 2000, p. 10
1.Legal Records 1/1 Memorandum of agreement between Salisbury Scott 1890, 1909 & Co. and Ruston, Proctor & Co., Lincoln, England, engineers and boiler makers, re appointment of Salisbury Scott and Co. as Ruston, Proctor & Co s agents in Launceston and north of 42 parallel in Tasmania (includes related correspondence); also memorandum of agreement 1909 1/2 Agreements between Salisbury s Foundry Company 1895-1917 and California Gold Mining Co., 1895; New Hit or Miss Gold Mining Co., 1895; J J O Brien, 1897; F H Barrett, 1897; W M Campbell, 1898; Tasmania United Gold Mining Co., 1899; Salmon Gold Syndicate, 1899; W M Campbell, 1900; Hickson s Mine, 1900; Louis Henn, 1901; New Star Block No.2, 1902; George Peddle, 1903; J C Macmichael, 1917 1/3 Indenture agreements between Salisbury s Foundry 1904-1917 Company and O Shea, Burr and Sharp, 1904; North Tasmanian Mining Co., 1905; Scott and Pickett Gold Mining Company, 1906; John Besant Co., 1906; Abbotsford Tin Mining Company, 1907; Thomas Ernest Stonehouse, Beaconsfield, 1907; Lyndhurst Gold Mining Company, 1907; Henry Boxhall, 1907; Walker Brothers, Deloraine, 1911; Mackay, 1911; John Dunham, Preston, 1911; New Alliance Gold Mining Company, 1911; James F Hibbs, 1915; Higgs and Kerrison, 1916; Kendalia Lime and Manure Co., 1917 1/4 Indenture agreement re apprenticeship for I J Addison, 1910-1923 T T Bain, A K Beck, H G Cox, J B Dargan, F M Eastman, A E Green, Joseph Green, James Harthen, Henry Jackson, Clifford Jackson, G F McKenzie, R T N McKenzie, A J McCormack, J L K Madden, D G Orpwood, C C Peter, A E Pinel, Ernest Quon, A T Robson, G A Smedley, J J Summers, C J Wilks 2.Letterbooks, Local 2/1 Salisbury Foundry letterbook, local, with index, 1888-1890 29 February 1888-6 March 1890 (removed for conservation report, 8 11/1996) 2/2 Letterbook, local, with index, 7 March 1890-1890-1891 20 February 1891 2/3 Letterbook, local, with index, 19 February 1891-1891-1892 30 March 1892
2/4 Letterbook, local, with index, 14 March 1893-1893-1894 14 February 1894 2/5 Letterbook, local, with index, 20 February 1894-1894-1895 6 February 1895 2/6 Letterbook, local, with index, 6 February 1895-1895-1896 29 January 1896 2/7 Letterbook, local, with index, 29 January 1896-1896 6 November 1896 2/8 Letterbook, local, with index, 6 November 1896-1896-1897 15 October 1897 2/9 Letterbook, local, with index, 15 October 1897-1897-1898 30 July 1898 2/10 Letterbook, local, with index, 12 April 1899-1899 27 October 1899 2/11 Letterbook, local, with index, 1 March 1901-1901 16 November 1901 2/12 Letterbook, local, with index, 30 May 1905-1905 6 December 1905 2/13 Letterbook, local, with index, 8 December 1905-1905-1906 8 June 1906 2/14 Letterbook, local, with index, 4 November 1906-1906-1907 3 May 1907 2/15 Letterbook, local, with index, 3 May 1907-1907 7 November 1907 2/16 Letterbook, local, with index, 8 November 1907-1907-1908 30 June 1908 2/17 Letterbook, local, with index, 30 June 1908-1908-1909 24 February 1909 2/18 Letterbook, local, with index, 24 February 1909-1909 21 September 1909 2/19 Letterbook, local, with index, 23 September 1909-1909-1910 16 June 1910 2/20 Letterbook, local, with index, 16 June 1910-1910-1911 7 March 1911
3.Letterbooks, Intercolonial 3/1 Letterbook, intercolonial, with index, 27 June 1887-1887-1893 25 July 1893 3/2 Letterbook, intercolonial, with index, 3 August 1893-1893-1897 28 June 1897 3/3 Letterbook, intercolonial, with index, 28 June 1897-1897-1900 15 January 1900 3/4 Letterbook, intercolonial, with index, 16 January 1900-1900-1902 25 July 1902 3/5 Letterbook, intercolonial, with index, 31 July 1902-1902-1904 13 December 1904 3/6 Letterbook, intercolonial, lacks index, 6 October 1905-1905-1907 9 August 1907 3/7 Letterbook, intercolonial, lacks index, 28 November 1906-1906-1907 26 July 1907 (fragile) 3/8 Letterbook, intercolonial, lacks index A-L, 12 August 1907-1907-1909 7 September 1909 4.Letterbook, Orders 4/1 Letterbook re items ordered [from firms outside Tasmania] 1899-1911 5.Correspondence 5/1 Letters from Douglas & Collins, solicitors, Launceston, 1892-1895 5/2 Letters etc from Easton, Anderson & Goolden, engineers, 1895-1898, London and Erith/Easton and Company (Salisbury s c1901, nd Foundry was their agent) 5/3 Correspondence re Gas King water heater (manufactured 1928-1934 by Salisbury s Foundry) 5/4 Letters from various businesses re machinery 1932-1939 5/5 Reports to R D Hasell from A Harris re work performed 1933 at factory in Victoria
5/6 Letters from Salisbury s Foundry 1933-1939 5/7 Letters re Employees Provident Fund Association 1934-1937 5/8 Correspondence re quotes 1935-1936 5/9 Correspondence re work undertaken during Second World 1942-1944 War (includes correspondence with Johnson & Wells, engineers, Hobart, 1942-1943; A McFarlane, shipwrights, Adelaide, 1943-1944; Purdon & Featherstone, shipbuilders, Hobart, 1942-1944; Naval Department, Hobart, 1942-1943) 5/10 Letters of appreciation re service etc sent to some 1947-1955 employees 5/11 Correspondence, 1947-1949, 1951-1952, 1968, 1989 1947-1989 6.Correspondence re Mining, Machinery etc (Letter indicates one item, correspondence two or more items) 6/1 Amalgamated Golden Era Gold Mining Co., Lefroy (report) 1898 Argus Tin Mine, Bradshaws Creek 1910 W A Aulich, St Marys (letter) 1935 Back Creek Gold Mines/Deep Leads, Lefroy 1914-1917 A Ballantyne, Sulphur Creek 1889, 1900 James Barclay, ironmonger, Launceston 1891 Bardenhagen & Lowe, Lebrina (letter) 1891 Beauty Point Jetty 1887-1888 John Best, Westbury, 1891 S G Blenkhorn, Railton 1890-1891 Henry Bloch, Deloraine (letter) 1891 Brookstead Option Syndicate, Avoca 1907 G A Bryan, Nile (letter) 1891 Burnie Copper Mines, Cuprona 1906-1909 Central Balfour Mine (telegram) 1910 City of Launceston, Electrical Engineer s Office 1907 Clifton Creek Tin Mine, South Mount Cameron 1911-1919 (correspondence, fragile) Cocker & Ockerby, agents, Launceston (letter) 1896 Copper King Mine, Blythe, Burnie 1908-1909 Cornwall Coal Co (reports) 1900, 1901 Crystal Hill Tin Mining Co., Lottah 1902-1906 Dalton & Stokell s Copper King Mine, Blythe 1909 Davidson & Brown, Engineers, Derwent Foundry, Hobart 1889-1891
Dorset Bucket Dredging Co., South Mount Cameron 1907-1910 Dorset Tin Dredging Project, South Mt Cameron 1943-1946 Adye Douglas Jnr, saw mill, Beaconsfield 1889-1891 Emu Bay Jetty 1886-1888 Emu Bay Railway Co. 1907-1908 Enterprise Gold Mining Co., Golconda (prospectus) c1900 James Galloway, Gladstone 1897-1918 Garibaldi Tin Mining Co., Branxholm 1905-1915 Yee Gee, Bradshaws Creek, Garibaldi 1912-1918 Great Southern Mount Lyell Mining Syndicate (report) 1900 Arthur Hardman, Waterhouse (letter) 1910 Henrikson & Knutson, contractors, Hobart 1905-1907 Inspector of Mines, James Harrison 1886-1914 Inspection of Machinery Department, Launceston 1900 G Keach, Chiswick, Ross (letter) 1890 Hen Kee, Wyniford River 1906 Bowes Kelly, Norton Mandeville, Glenora 1912-1915 Thomas Kelly, Sassafras (letter) 1893 Robert H Kelway, Denison, Dunorlan, Branxholm 1891-1892 E Kemp and Co., engineers, Launceston (letter) 1901 R Kennedy & Sons, engineers, Hobart 1891-1911 T Kenner, builder, Burnie 1891,1893 J Keogh, Lebrinna 1907-1910 R C Kermode, Mona Vale 1908-1909 Kerrison Prospecting Association, Derby 1893 Khaki Tin Mining Co. (application for shares) 1901 King Island Co-operative Dairy Factory 1904-1909 A T Kirkcaldy, Westbury 1900-1901 Malcolm Kirwan, Poimena, via Lottah 1909 Chin Kit, Bradshaw s Creek
F Kite, estate agents, Ulverstone 1910-1911 Thomas? Kitto, Lefroy 1888-1895 J Knight, store, Beaconsfield (letter) 1898 W H Knight, millwright, engineer, Launceston (letter) 1888 J Koch, Melbourne (letter) 1890 Koonookarra, W Holyman & Sons Ltd 190? Launceston Corporation 1898 Launceston Marine Board 1928 Leven Harbour Trust 1909-1911 Lisle Road Saw Mills 1899 Lohmann & Co., Melbourne (letter) 1909 Chas Lowe, Beaconsfield 1889 Magnet Silver Mining Co., Magnet 1901-1912 Moonlight-cum-Wonder Gold Mining Co. (report) 1901 Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Co., Waratah (letter, 1895, 1895 specification, nd) Mount Cleveland Tin Mining Company, Whyte River 1907-1911 (correspondence, includes photograph) Mount Lyell Blocks Copper Mines, Linda 1918 Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co., (letter) 1903 Mount Paris Tin Mines, Branxholm 1935-1936 Mount Reid Mining Company Ltd (correspondence, 1898-1901 includes lithographed plan of Hercules Mine, Mr Reid, signed W F Pettard) Mount Rex Tin Mining Co., Avoca (correspondence, 1900-1905 fragile) Murchison River Silver & Lead Co., Mount Farrell 1906-1909 New Alliance Gold Mining Co., Lyndhurst 1908-1910 New Enterprise Gold Mining Co. (notice of meeting) 1901 New Golden Mara Mining Co., Branxholm 1915-1917 New Jubilee Gold Mining Co., Mathinna 1915-1918 New Pinafore Gold Mining Co., Lefroy (letter and diagram) 1895 New River Freehold, Alberton 1908 New Roys Hill Tin Mining Co., Avoca 1910-1916 New Ruby Flat Tin Mining Co., Branxholm 1914-1916 New Saxelby Tin Mining Co., St Helens 1913 New Wyengatta Gold Mining Co., Golconda 1907-1911 North Mount Farrell Mining Co., Mount Farrell (letter) 1910 North Mount Lyell Copper Co. Ltd., Crotty 1901-1903 Northern Territories Mines of Australia, Dundas (letter) 1907 Nugget Gold Mining Co. (notice of call) 1908 Oatlands Improvement Association 1906 H J O Brien, Beaconsfield (letter) 1910 J J O Brien, Bridport, Beaconsfield, Frankford 1898-1907 John C O Brien, Mt Lyell (letter) 1897 O Briens Gold Mine, Mathinna? 1895-1897 Oceana Silver Mining Co., Zeehan (letter) 1898 James Ogilvie, Poimena 1898-1902 Oonah Silver Mining Co, Zeehan 1890-1912
Ophir Gold Mining Co., Mathinna (letter) 1905 J Osborne & Son, nurserymen, Hobart 1907 John Owen, Longford (letter) 1905 H N Paige, Queenstown 1902-1905 Charles Page, barrister, Zeehan (letter) 1903 B D Palliser, Penguin Hotel (letter) 1905 E Paterson, George Town (letter) 1900s J Paterson & Son, engineers, Hobart 1902-1905 John Patmore, Scottsdale 1904 Edith Pearn, Glenore 1904-1905 George Peddle, Lisle Road 1904-1906 Penal Establishment, Launceston (letter re mangle) 1889 F Perger, Lilydale 1905 Peter Bros, brass & iron founders, Launceston (letter) 1904 David Peters, Newnham 1904 W Peterson, Westbury (letter) 1905 Henry Phillips, importer, Latrobe 1904 W J Phillipson, Beaconsfield 1904 Pioneer Extended Tin Sluicing Co., near Bradshaw s 1906 Creek Pioneer Tin Mining Co., Bradshaw s Creek 1902-1906 Michael Polley, Mathinna (letter) 1905 S Priest Jnr, architect, Devonport 1903-1907 Portland Road District, St Helens (letter) 1905 W A Preston & Co., Launceston 1904-1905 M l Prion?, Beaconsfield (letter) 1893 F Proctor, wheelwright & blacksmith, Lilydale, 1901-1906 Propsting Bros, Pieman Bridge (letter) 1899 George Proverb, Meander 1899, 1904 H Quarry, Bishopsbourne (letter) 1904 Queen of the Earth Mine Limited, Mathinna 1899-1906 Queen River Co., Lynchford 1901 Queensland Tobacco Company, Brisbane 1902 Railton-Wilmot Railway, Sheffield 1913-1914 Ernest Ransom, Killymoon Cottage (letter) 1897 F T Ransom, Killymoon, Mt Nicholas 1896 L E Ransom, Millbrook, Mt Nicholas 1896-1905 James Ranson, Springfield (letter) 1899 Henry Reed, Logan 1899? Mrs Henry Reed, Mt Pleasant 1902-1906 Reuter s Telegram Company Limited 1903 The Revenue Gold Prospecting Association, Queenstown 1902 Rex Hill Tribute Association, via Avoca 1894, 1899 Charles Reynolds, Zeehan (letter) 1903 Reynolds & Co, Sandy Bay 1904 I Rhatigan, Beaconsfield (letter) 1900 S Richards, George Town 1904 G S Richardson, Frankford (letter) 1903
E Righette, Queenstown (letter) 1899 Ringaroma Bucket-Dredging Co., N.L. 1906 Ringarooma Dredging Co. (prospectus) 1899 Ringarooma Gold Mining Co. Ltd 1899, 1902 Risby Bros, saw millers, Strahan (letter) 1900 River Don Trading Co., Ltd, Devonport 1888,1891, 1909 Anthony Roberts, Waratah 1903-1907 Edward Roberts, engineer, Dunedin (letter) 1920? A G Robins, Launceston 1900-1904 Robinson, Hobart (letter) 1905? Ray Robinson, Schouten Main (letter) 1905 Daniel Robson, engineer, Hobart 1898 Rodger & Co., builders, Hobart 1901-1902 John Rollins, plumber, tinsmith, New Norfolk (letter) 1905 Alexander Ross, Launceston (letter) 1896 Royal Tharsis Mining Co., N Mt Lyell 1899-1900 Roys Hill Tin Mining Co., Avoca 1911 Ruby King Tin Mining Co., St Helen s (letter) 1901 George Rudge, valuator etc., Latrobe (letter) 1903 W F Rudge, aerated waters etc., Deloraine, Latrobe Roller 1903-1907 Mills Sago Hill, Adelaide (letter) 1906? Salmon Gold Syndicate (letter) 1904 C F Salter, St Marys (letter) 1893 Sandfly Colliery Co. (correspondence, fragile) 1905-1908 G N Sargent, saw miller etc, Launceston 1903-1905 C G Saul (letter) 1904 F Saunders, Scottsdale 1903, 1905 T Savage, Devonport (letter) 1904 Scamander Copper Mines 1911-1915 D Scott, Avoca (letter) 1898 R S Scott (letter) 1905 Scott & Griffiths, brewers, Launceston 1899, 1905 Scottsdale-Branxholm Railway 1909-1911 Scottsdale Dairy Co (letter) 1935 Ben Searle, Mathinna (letter) 1907 T S Sharman 1906? Thomas Shaw, Ulverstone 1900 C H F Shearn, Launceston 1903 S Shelton, storekeeper, Campbell Town (letter) 1905 Shepherd & Murphy (letter) 1906 E A Sherwin, butcher, Hobart (letter) 1903 R W G Shoobridge, Valleyfield, New Norfolk 1903 Silver Foam Prospecting Co., Zeehan 1903 C Simpson, Lefroy (letter) 1904 Simpson Bros, Scottsdale (letter) 1905 C Sindall?, Beaconsfield (letter) 1904 A D Sligo, mining agent, Zeehan (letter) 1899 B M Smith, hotel, Westbury (letter) 1904
B V Smith, Ringarooma (letter) 1905 C J L Smith, Deloraine 1904-1905 Chas. H Smith & Co., merchants, Launceston 1905-1906 F E Smith, builder, Stanley 1902, 1904 H Smith, Hobart (letter) 1895 Henry Smith, Devonport (letter) 1899 John Smith, Zeehan (letter) 1904 W B Smith, Beaconsfield 1906, 1935 Smith s Creek Tin Mining Co., Ringarooma (prospectus) nd Smiths Creek Tin Mines, Mt Garnet, Q 1903 James Smorall?, Beaconsfield (letter) 1903 South Comstock Mining Co., near Zeehan (proposal to c1900 form a company) South Esk Tin?, 1905 South Mount Cameron Tin Mining Company 1903-1906 St Marys Road Trust 1902, 1905 Stabb Brothers, builders, Hobart (letter) 1903 Star of Peace Mine, Ringarooma 1903-1906 Charles Stephens, Cape Barren Island (letter) 1904 Stephenson & Gunn, King Island 1899 W G Stevens, Mathinna 1905 James Stevenson Avoca (letter) 1903 R D Stewart, Devonport (letter) 1899 W Stewart, Widows Fund Chambers (letter) 1904 Strahan Marine Board 1900-1902 E Stingel, Alberton (letter) 1899 J? E Stone, dealer, Gormanston (letter) 1906 Story s Creek Tin Mining Syndicate, Avoca 1915-1917 James Stott, Beaconsfield, Mathinna 1905 Strahan Marine Board 1904, 1905 J T Stubs, Lefroy 1904-1908 W H Stubs, Lefroy 1904-1907 Neil Sturzaker, Black Sugar Loaf, Westbury 1901 Louis Stutterd, Zeehan (correspondence, includes diagram 1904 of pulverizer) G Sulzberger, Lilydale 1907 Sunbeam and Twilight Gold Mining Co., Mathinna (letter) 1894 Swansea, re water supply 1903 Tasmania Gold Mining Co., Tasmania Gold Mine Ltd, 1889-1896, Beaconsfield 1909-1916 Tasmania Gold Mining and Quartz Crushing Company nd (specifications for sinking a new shaft) Tasmania West Extended Gold Mining Co., Beaconsfield 1900 (balance sheet) Tasmanian Consuls Ltd, Mathinna 1904-1908 Tasmanian Copper Co., Rosebery (letter) 1906 Tasmanian Golden Gate Mine (accounts) 1900 Tasmanian Metals Extraction Co., Launceston 1910-1913
Tasmanian Ore Concentration Works, Comstock (letter) 1892 Tasmanian Silver Mining Co., Comstock (letter) 1891 Tasmanian Tin Dredging Co., Derby 1897-1902 Volunteer Consolidated Gold Mining Co., Mathinna 1904-1908 Volunteer Gold Mining Co., Lefroy 1892-1898 (The company s battery and cyanide plant were moved from Lefroy to Mathinna in 1901, see Examiner 29/3/1901, p.1, c.3) Volunteer Gold Mining Co., Mathinna 1901-1905 Waller Bros, engineers, Zeehan 1897 A G Webster & Son, importers, Hobart (letter) 1897 Webster & Son, Hobart 1889 West Comet Silver Mining Co., Dundas (letter) 1896 West Pinafore Gold Mining Co., Lefroy 1892-1894 West Volunteer Prospecting Association, Lefroy 1896 Western Silver Mining Co.,/Zeehan-Western Ltd, 1896-1906 Zeehan Whyte River Gold Dredging Co. 1899 T Willson, Branxholm (letter) 1897 S Wilson, Lefroy (letter) 1897 J A Windred, Beaconsfield 1897 H Wood, West Devonport 1897 J W Wyett, Beaconsfield Tramway 1897 Zeehan-Montana Mine Ltd 1906-1913 Zeehan-Western Ltd, see Western Silver Mining Co. Zeehan Town Board 1906-1912 Zeehan Tramway Co., (letter) 1907 7.Invoice Books 7/1 Salisbury s Foundry, invoice book, with index, 1892-1894 December 1892-June 1894 7/2 Invoice book, with index, October 1896-March 1899 1896-1899 7/3 Invoice book, with index, April 1901-April 1903 1901-1903 7/4 Invoice book, with index, April 1901-April 1905 1903-1905 7/5 Invoice book, with index, April 1905-July 1907 1905-1907 7/6 Salisbury s Engineering Co., invoice books, nos. 40,001-1980-1982 45,800
8.Financial Records 8/1 Foundry accounts 1889, 1890 8/2 Revenue balance sheets for quarter ending 30 June 1880 1880 8/3 Salisbury s Foundry Company, handwritten note re 1890 price of boilers 8/4 Accounts from Douglas & Collins, solicitors, 1884, 1885, 1884-1914 1887, 1888, 1890-1893, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902, 1903, 1910, 1914 8/5 Pay sheet May-June 1900 (includes employees names, 1900 how employed, amount paid, employees signatures) 8/6 Balance sheets and accounts, at 1 April 1907, 31 March 1917-1907-1939 1919, 1921, 1923-1925, 1928, 30 June 1934, 29 February 1936, 30 June 1938, 1939 8/7 Commercial Union Assurance Company re insurance on 1912 mining plant buildings at Scamander 8/8 Shipping bills 1894-1896 8/9 Shipping bills 1897-1898 8/10 Shipping bills 1899-1900 8/11 Shipping bills 1901-1905 8/12 Hotel bills, 1898, 1900, c1900 1898-1900 8/13 Salary records for W Edwards, I Hughes, T Lamb, 1946-1950 C Scott, J Taylor at 17 December 1946; F Lamb, H Mayer, C Scott at 19 December 1947; T Lamb, H Mayer, C Scott at 20 December 1948; Green, T Lamb, H Mayor, O C Taylor at 30 June 1950 9.Employees Note Books (Examples only retained) 9/1 Employees job note books, 1897, 1898-1899, 1897-1919 1899, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907, 1919 (all include drawings), Kings Bridge, nd 9/2 Employees job note books 1928-1934 9/3 Employees job record book 24 January-18 November 1980-1987
1980; machine shop job record book 29 October 1986-16 November 1987 9/4 Hours worked by employees each week 1966-1966-1967 8 February 1967 10.Publications 10/1 Machinery for sale, new and second-hand at Salisbury s 1919 Foundry Co. Ltd, Launceston, Tasmania 10/2 Salisbury s Engineering Coy. Pty. Ltd, 177 Moore Street, nd South Melbourne, The Salisbury giant sluicing nozzle 10/3 Salisbury s Foundry, information re Lanz Bulldog diesel nd crude oil tractors, three typed pages 10/4 Salisbury s Foundry Agricultural Department, typed nd information re sulphur spray; printed flyer re Agricultural Divisions with steel, iron, bronze and brass castings information on verso 10/5 Salisbury Engineering, Excavator log grabs, brochure nd 10/6 Salisbury Engineering, brochure re products and services nd 11.Printed Notices 11/1 The Salisbury Water Heater. Directions for Use, nd also fragment of notice re heater Oversize items 11/2 Wherever you Trade, Buy Australian made, printed nd notice re Salisbury Domestic Water Heater Oversize item 11/3 The Salisbury Fuel Water Heater, Suitable for Cottage nd or Mansion, printed notice Oversize item 11/4 This is the Cold Water Supply Tank, printed notice nd Oversize item 11/5 This is the Hot Water Draw-Off Pipe, printed notice nd Oversize item 11/6 Giant Sluicing Nozzle as supplied to leading mines in nd all parts of the Commonwealth. Manufactured in all sizes by Salisbury s Foundry Co. Pty. Ltd., Launceston, Tasmania, printed notice Oversize item 11/7 King s Bridge built and floated into position by Salisbury nd
Foundry Co. Pty. Ltd., printed notice Oversize item 11/8 Air Bag Moulds for Rapson Tyre & Rubber Co. (Aus.) Ltd nd Salisbury s Foundry Co. Pty. Ltd., Makers, printed notice Oversize item 12.Miscellaneous Items 12/1 Tasmanian Mail 23 September 1899, p.18, article 1899 re cast iron spur wheel manufactured by Salisbury Foundry for the Tasmania G.M. Co., Beaconsfield Oversize item 12/2 Derwent & Tamar Assurance Company Limited policy 1909 re goods on steamers Oversize item 12/3 William Robert Peel Salisbury, International 1931 Accountants Corporation, certification that he is a Senior Fellow of the Corporation Oversize item 12/4 Share certificate, Salisbury s Foundry Co., 1935; 1935 share certificate, R D Hasell, 1935 12/5 Information sheets advertising various products, nd stamped Salisburys Agricultural Dept. Launceston 12/6 Information sheets etc advertising various products, 1936, nd stamped Salisburys Engineering Dept. Launceston 12/7 For Salisbury s Foundry Company Ltd.Director, nd rubber stamp 13.Ephemera 13/1 Various letterheads, 190- and nd; letterhead for Salisbury s Agricultural Department, nd; envelope, nd; Received from Salisbury s Foundry Company forms, 194-; Dr. to Salisbury s Foundry forms, 19--; From Salisbury s Foundry Co. labels, nd; Salisbury s Foundry Car and Truck Repairs Representative O C Taylor, card, nd; business card for O.C. Taylor, Manager Salisbury s Foundry, nd OTHER SOURCES QVMAG, Community History, photograph database, search for Salisbury s Foundry QVMAG, Community History, Documentation series, 1996.P.0554 QVMAG, Library holds Salisbury s Foundry specifications
Launceston Reference Library, Local History Collection, news cuttings file Salisbury s Foundry Cyclopedia of Tasmania, Hobart, 1900, vol.2, pp.119-120 M Morris-Nunn and C B Tassell, Launceston s industrial heritage, Launceston, 1982 M O Brien, Tasmania s war effort 1939-45, Launceston, 1946 Salisbury s Foundry Company Pty Ltd: brief history and achievements, Examiner 3 December 1921