Photographic print, black & white, workmen rolling out Durabestos at Wunderlich Limited's factory in Cabarita, New South Wales, Wunderlich Limited, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia, 1927

The image appeared on page 100 of 'Forty Years of Wunderlich Industry'. The caption read, 'When sufficient of the mixture has collected on the drum, it is unwound and placed on a steel plate.'

Sydney based company formed in 1885 and taken over in 1969 by CSR.

Wunderlich Limited

The inner city suburb of Redfern is named after William Redfern, a pioneering doctor who came to Australia as a convict in 1801.  He was granted 100 acres in the area of the present suburb of Redfern and built a large home surrounded by gardens.  Sydney's original railway terminus was built in the Cleveland Paddocks and was named after William Redfern.  It was built of iron and in 1874 was replaced by a brick and stone structure, covering two platforms.  The station was the focal point for the Sydney tramway network and was located midway between the present Central and Redfern Stations.  At that time the present Redfern station was known as Eveleigh.  Central Railway Station was opened in 1906 and, as its name suggests, it became the central railway for Sydney city.  The original Redfern Station was closed and the name of Eveleigh Station was changed to Redfern Station.
Source - The Book of Sydney Suburbs, compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus and Robertson, 1990

Redfern, New South Wales

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Manufacturing industry

A7437-28/204 Photographic print, black and white, workmen rolling out Durabestos at Wunderlich Limited's factory in Cabarita, New South Wales, Wunderlich Limited, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia, 1927

Opaque photographs, usually positive, usually on paper, and generally, but not always, printed from a negative. Use `Negative prints' for prints in which the tones or colours are reversed from their appearance in nature.

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Photograph of workers rolling out Durabestos at the Wunderlich Cabarita factory

Object No. A7437-28/204

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