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Vintage Carriage Train Builders Plates.
YOU ARE GETTING TWO PLATES FROM COMMONWEALTH ENGINEERING THESE WOULD HAVE COME OF A TRAIN ENGINE OR CARRIAGE FROM NSW GR GRANVILLE NSW AUSTRALIA.
CIRCA 1960’S OR 1950’S
COLLECTIBLE AND RARE.
Condition is Used.
Commonwealth Engineering was founded in 1921 as Smith & Waddington, in the Sydney suburb of Camperdown building bodies for motorcars and buses.[1] It was reformed after the Depression as Waddingtons Body Works and moved to Granville. The Government of Australia took control of the company during World War II to produce materials in the Granville factory. The government purchased a controlling stake in the company in 1946 and changed the name to Commonwealth Engineering.
In 1949 a factory was established in Rocklea, Queensland. This was followed in 1952 a plant in Bassendean, Western Australia and in 1954 by another in Dandenong, Victoria. In June 1957, the government sold its shares. In November 1982 Comeng was taken over by Australian National Industries.
The Granville factory closed in 1989 and has been demolished. The site, which sat between the Great Western Highway and Main Western railway line west of Duck River, has been replaced with new developments that include high rise housing and light industry.
The Dandenong plant was sold in 1990 to ABB Transportation and is now operated by Bombardier Transportation while the Bassendean facility was sold to A Goninan & Co.
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