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Eric Schulz
Member
Username: eric_schulz
Post Number: 19
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Monday, February 05, 2007 - 08:25 pm: | 
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Here's a question for the Australian experts. What does this plate mean? Did Poole & Steele build engines, or is this from an engine they supplied? |
Mark Stretch
Senior Member
Username: marks
Post Number: 87
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 05, 2007 - 11:45 pm: |
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Hi Eric,
My understanding is that Poole & Steel were shipbuilders. They were located at Cockatoo Island in Sydney, I don't know where in Adelaide. They may also have had operations in Melbourne.
Morts Dock may have been connected. The earliest year I have seen was 1912 and the latest 1950.
In the second World War they built minesweepers. I have seen a reference to "Engine Construction Book Drawings" in the National Archives.
Dredger No 19 built for the Commonwealth Navigation Department in 1914 or before. NAA: C4150: 54 - National Archives of Australia.
Eric I assume that they made large ships but perhaps also manufactured their own engines which would have also been large.
Cheers
Mark S. |
Eric Schulz
Member
Username: eric_schulz
Post Number: 20
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 12:01 am: |
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Thanks, Mark. I should have said that the plate shown is in the Adelaide Maritime Museum on a weldmesh display "board". "Adelaide and Sydney" would lead one to believe that Adelaide was the main works. It may, in fact, have been no more than a representatives office.
Eric |
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