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Manufacturing in Australia peaked in the 1960s at 25% of the country's gross domestic product, and has since dropped below 10%. At one stage manufacturing employed almost a third of Australia's workforce. [1] Automotive manufacturing in Australia began in the 1920s and came to an end in 2017.
The Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum is an industrial museum in Lithgow, New South Wales.It is located on the original Commonwealth Small Arms Factory site and houses archives dating back to the founding of the factory in 1912, as well as a large number of historical small arms and artefacts related to the operation of the original Lithgow Small Arms Factory.
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.
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 National Motor Museum, formerly also known as The Old Mill and Birdwood Mill after its initial location, is a social history museum of the History Trust of South Australia focused on Australian motoring history and automobile museum in the Adelaide Hills in the township of Birdwood, South Australia.
However, from the 1970s, when many Australian-based manufacturing industries were experiencing financial difficulties, the business progressively contracted, and most of the factory was demolished in 1992, to make way for the development of the Sunshine Marketplace. [9]
Ford Motor Company of Australia Limited (known by its trading name Ford Australia) is the Australian subsidiary of United States–based automaker Ford Motor Company. It was founded in 1925 as an Australian outpost of Ford Motor Company of Canada. At that time, Ford Canada was a separate company from Ford in the US.
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