Organisations
Organisations connected to mapped places.
Showing 23 of 23 organisations
Amalgamated Workers' Association
Trade union
Rural labour organisation later linked to the formation of the Australian Workers' Union.
Associated Equipment Company (AEC) / Hardy Motors
Vehicle manufacturer
Manufacturer of the Australian Government Roadtrain unit.
Australian Workers' Union
Trade union
Large Australian union whose institutional lineage absorbed several late nineteenth-century rural labour organisations.
British Overseas Mechanical Transport Committee
Transport committee
Committee that commissioned the Government Roadtrain design.
Bundaberg Foundry Engineers
Bundaberg engineering firm that designed and erected the Tableland milling plant.
Bundaberg Sugar Limited
Sugar company that built the Tableland mill at Arriga in 1998.
Cairns Regional Electricity Board
Electricity board
Regional electricity board associated with the CREB Track and Cooktown feeder line.
Chillagoe Railway & Mines Ltd (the Chillagoe Company)
Mining and railway company
Company formed in 1898 to build the Chillagoe railway and smelters; liquidated 1923.
Commonwealth Railways
Railway operator
Federal railway system associated with inland railheads that reshaped camel and dray freight patterns.
Department of the Interior
Government department
Australian Commonwealth department that operated the Government Roadtrain.
Elder Smith & Co.
Pastoral and mercantile firm
Pastoral and mercantile firm associated with camel-backed inland supply and exploration support.
Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd
Iron-ore mine, rail and port operator
Pilbara iron-ore mine, rail and port operator
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