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The first Australian-made bottle of Coca-Cola was made in 1938. [8] The Government Aircraft Factories was established in 1939 to manufacture aircraft in Australia. Manufacturing in Australia experienced an exceptional boom during World War II and the two decades that followed. [7] Local manufacturers were assisted by protectionist tariffs. [1]
In 2019, the museum was placed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register which lists influential collections and documents considered key to Australia's history. [3] The museum sees 9,000 annual visitors and is a big draw to the city of Lithgow. [4]
The Welshpool manufacturing site was redeveloped and a new office complex built in 1982, however by 1986 due to significant decline in demand, the manufacture of Chamberlain tractors ceased. [ 1 ] In October 2024, a 5:1 scale sculpture of a 40K was unveiled at Carnamah, Western Australia , another of Australia's big things .
The Meadowbank Manufacturing Company was closed due to the Great Depression. In 1929, there were large lay-offs of men and, by September 1930, the company had closed. Ryde Council acquired the land for a planned sandstone quarry but the State Government took it over and built Meadowbank TAFE, and the balance wassubdivided for housing.
The Holden Elizabeth Plant was a vehicle manufacturing facility in Elizabeth, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, operated by Holden from 1963 until 2017. It succeeded the Woodville Plant as South Australia's main assembly facility. [1] The plant pressed and assembled bodies with engines from its Port Melbourne Plant in Victoria. [2]
The museum's Research Centre takes a cross-disciplinary approach to history, ensuring the museum is a lively forum for ideas and debate about Australia's past, present and future. [ 6 ] The museum's innovative use of new technologies has been central to its growing international reputation in outreach programming, particularly with regional ...
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In the first two volumes of his History of Australia (1962, 1968) Manning Clark developed an idiosyncratic interpretation of Australian history telling the story of "epic tragedy" in which "the explorers, Governors, improvers, and perturbators vainly endeavoured to impose their received schemes of redemption on an alien, intractable setting". [5]