Australian Gas Retort & Fire Brick Manufacturing Co. Pty Ltd
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Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsManufacturers, bricks and tilesManufacturers, gasHistoryEstablished in 1869, the Australian Gas Retort and Fire Brick Manufacturing Company Pty Ltd manufactured fire clay goods, supplying to such companies as the Metropolitan Gas Co Ltd and Victorian Railways and Government. From around 1940. its successor appears to have been the South Yarra Fire Brick Co Pty Ltd, manufacturing and selling a wide range of medium and high duty fireclay products and a range of refractory, airsetting and heatsetting cements, castables and mouldables.
Australian Gas Retort & Fire Brick Manufacturing Co. Pty Ltd. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 20/03/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/58067
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