Ronaldson Bros & Tippett Ltd

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Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsManufacturers, machinery and equipmentHistoryFounded in 1903 by Dave Ronaldson, an engineer who took into partnership his brother Adam, and in 1905 admitted Herbert Tippett. That year the firm commenced manufacturing internal combustion engines, notably the Austral Oil Engine. In 1927 Ronaldson Bros. & Tippett Ltd. diversified into diesel engines but was hit early by the onset of the depression. Recovery was aided by a Defence contract in 1932 to generate power in Darwin and Defence production continued during the war. Postwar expansion led to the building of a new iron foundry and in 1948 the firm became a public company. In 1970 it was collapsed on the stock exchange and sold up, seeing the emergence of the Merbank Corporation.

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