Echidna Maps

Organisations

Organisations connected to mapped places.

Showing 23 of 23 organisations

Amalgamated Workers' Association

Trade union

published

Rural labour organisation later linked to the formation of the Australian Workers' Union.

Associated Equipment Company (AEC) / Hardy Motors

Vehicle manufacturer

published

Manufacturer of the Australian Government Roadtrain unit.

Australian Workers' Union

Trade union

published

Large Australian union whose institutional lineage absorbed several late nineteenth-century rural labour organisations.

British Overseas Mechanical Transport Committee

Transport committee

published

Committee that commissioned the Government Roadtrain design.

Bundaberg Foundry Engineers

published

Bundaberg engineering firm that designed and erected the Tableland milling plant.

Bundaberg Sugar Limited

published

Sugar company that built the Tableland mill at Arriga in 1998.

Cairns Regional Electricity Board

Electricity board

published

Regional electricity board associated with the CREB Track and Cooktown feeder line.

Chillagoe Railway & Mines Ltd (the Chillagoe Company)

Mining and railway company

published

Company formed in 1898 to build the Chillagoe railway and smelters; liquidated 1923.

Commonwealth Railways

Railway operator

published

Federal railway system associated with inland railheads that reshaped camel and dray freight patterns.

Department of the Interior

Government department

published

Australian Commonwealth department that operated the Government Roadtrain.

Elder Smith & Co.

Pastoral and mercantile firm

published

Pastoral and mercantile firm associated with camel-backed inland supply and exploration support.

Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd

Iron-ore mine, rail and port operator

published

Pilbara iron-ore mine, rail and port operator

Showing 1-12 of 23

Page 1 of 2