APP A. APPENDIX Corrugated Iron CORRUGATED ... - Miles Lewis

APPENDIX 

Corrugated Iron 

CORRUGATED IRON GAZETTEER 

A1 Anonymous 

[possibly cognate with Lones, Vernon & Holden, qv] 

Undated 

Stables/shearing shed, 'Killeen', Victoria 

[illegible symbol, possibly a circular shape with a ring of radiating lines close together] 

.... ILLS ... & H..D... 

BIRMINGHAM 

A1 CROWN 

- 1877 - 1908 - 1 

Imported by F Lassetter & Co of Sydney from an unnamed maker. 

Lassetters' advertisement. 2 

Machinery shed, Rouse Hill, NSW 3 

PATENT 

[crown] 

A 1 

PATENT 

[crown] 

A 1 

APP A. 

1 Charles Mayes, The Australian Builders' Price-Book (3rd ed, Melbourne 1877), p 157; ibid (4th 

ed, Melbourne 1883), p 123; ibid (5th ed, 1886), p 139; C E Mayes, The Australian Builders & 

Contractors' Price Book (7th ed, Sydney 1908), p 162. 

2 Mayes, Australian Builders' Price-Book (1886), advertisements p xiv. 

3 Information from John Daujotis, 2006.

APPENDIX A: Corrugated Iron: 09 APP A.: 2 

AB STAR 

-1876 - 1902 – 

[probably the same as JB STAR, below] 

Briscoe, Drysdale & Co, Sydney 4 

Numerous locations: 5 

[broken line hexagram containing a script monogram 'AB'] 

[in script, flanking the lower point: 

Regd Mark 

] 

ADAMS-MARS 

- 1886 6 - 1903 7 - 

George Adams & Sons, Mars Iron Works, Wolverhampton 8 

Numerous locatons. 9 

GALV D [figure of helmed warrior looking right with a shield in his left hand and a dagger raised in his 

right] TINNED 

ADAMS-MARS 

4 Australasian Ironmonger, 1 May 1887, p 126: Briscoe, Drysdale & Co seek registration of a 

trademark in New Zealand for plain and galvanised corrugated iron, comprising two triangles 

with the letters AB conjoined. 

5 'Mayfield', Mordialloc, c 1876 (information from Allan Willingham 2002); Briagolong, 

Victoria, Mechanics Institute, smoke/supper room of 1902, in association with Dolphin iron: 

information from Linda Barraclough, 1994. Also Strathfieldsaye (west roof of house; east roof 

of the machinery shed. east roof of mustering shed]; hay shed, 'The Ridge', Rosedale; Gulf 

Station; the hay and machinery shed, 'Kooroo' Jersey Stud', Koorooman (apparently re-used); 

Lumsden shearing shed near Hillside, Victoria (as reported by Neil Cox to the Gippsland 

Heritage Journal 1995); former shearing shed / stable at 'Tragowel' station near Kerang; former 

Presbyterian manse, Port Fairy (information from Timothy Hubbard, 1993: though the building 

dates from about 1853, the iron is a later addition); Cobb & Co stable building, Marong 

(information from Halina Eckersley, 1997); woolshed, 'Newlands', Apsley, Victoria 

(information from Tanya Hancock, 1997: also a later addition); Llewellyn's, Jarrahmond, 

Gippsland, said to be of the late 1930s, reported by May Leatch 2006. 

6 Australasian Ironmonger, I, 7 (1 October 1886), advertisements p xv. 

7 Gilbert Herbert, Pioneers of Prefabrication (Baltimore [Maryland] 1978), p 144, quoting 

Longland's Transvaal and Rhodesia Directory (1903), p 11. 

8 Centennial International Exhibition 1888-1889, Official Record (Melbourne 1890), p 466. 

9 Timber building, Hamilton Downs station, Northern Territory (description taken from this 

example); 'Strathfieldsaye', Gippsland, machinery shed; in a window at the Mortlake flour mill 

(photo supplied by Halina Eckersley). Also South Australian examples, illustrations of which 

have been supplied by Linda Barraclough, 1998, fence, Craddock Avenue, Hawker (not 

described); Gaol, Redruth, South Australia (not original to the building, of 1856); and Jacka 

house ruins, Hampton, Burra.


A.I.5 RELIANCE 

-1937- 

Green house, Gippsland:, 1937. 10 

AMOR 

Early twentieth century. 

Windorah Store, Queensland: 11 

[two half circles] 

A.I.5 

RELIANCE 

KEMBLA 

[circle containing 

[crown] 

[crown] [crown] 

AMOR 

] 

ANCHOR 

c 1855 - 1862 

Made by Walkers of Tipton. Worded 'Morewood's patent, Walker's G [anchor] O 

Brand. No specimen reported, precise form unknown. 

ANCHOR 

-1861-1892- 

Made by Morewood & Co. 12 

ANCHOR 

See also GOSPEL OAK ANCHOR [c 1862 - c 1880s] 

ANCHOR & CASTLE [MALLEABLE] 

Undated 

Salvaged by Lindsay Thompson in 1991 from a house at Orbost, Victoria, photo 

provided by May Leatch 2009. 

[apward arc of lettering: 

MALLEABLE] 

symbol of overlaid castle and anchor 

ownward curved scrolled ribbon 

[downward curved arc: 

BRAND] 

10 Reported by John Little, 1995. 

11 Mrs Dot Gordon of Windorah, letter of 14 March 1994. 

12 Argus, 25 May 1861, p 8. Morewood & Co registered the anchor trademark in one or more of 

the Australian colonies in 1892: Australian series no A11833, accession no A11833/1, control 

no 252 (information from Terry Sawyer, 2004).


APOLLO 

Undated, twentieth century 

Both types at a hut at Cheyne's Bridge, Gippsland, and the briefer one elsewhere: 13 

[male head with taenia] 

APOLLO 

[male head with taenia] 

APOLLO 

FROM 

UNITED STATES STEEL 

PRODUCTS EXPORTERS 

NEW YORK, U.S.A. 

ARMCO 

-1919- 

'Armco Rust Resisting Iron', made by the American Rolling Mill Co of Middletown, 

Ohio, and sold in Australia by the Armco Iron Australian Agency of Sydney. 14 

ARROW 

-1886- 15 

no example identified 

ASH & LACY, see FORWARD; OWL 

AUSTRAL 

Unidentified slide 

AUSTRALIA CROWN 

Undated 

Two New South Wales sites 16 

[oval symbol] 

AUSTRAL 

NOT FOR CURVING 

13 

The briefer one at the Rupanyup Flour Mill, western Victoria, single storey portion, partly 

rebuilt; and the hayshed, 'Highbury', Soldiers Road, Hillside (the latter reported by Neil Cox to 

the Gippsland Heritage Journal, 1995). Another example (of which type is unclear) Store 

Point, Donelleys Creek, north of Walhalla, Victoria, reported by Linda Barraclough, 1998. 

14 

Building, XXIV, 145 (12 September 1919), p 20. 

15 

Australasian Ironmonger, 1 December 1886. 

16 

Arch-roofed shed of recycled iron, ‘Monalong’ east of Berrigan; Rouse Hill (information from 

John Daujotis 2006).


[annulus containing at top ‘AUSTRALIA’ 

[image of crown in centre of ring] 

two symmetrical decorative fillets in the bottom of the annulus] 

AVON 

Undated, probably early twentieth century 

Two Victorian sites: 17 

AWATA SEITETSC, see MOON STAR 

BAIN, W & CO 

W Bain & Co, Coatbridge, Scotland 

known only for corrugated steel fencing 

- 1888 18 - 

BALDWINS CROWN PHŒNIX, see CROWN PHŒNIX 

BBB 

Undated. 

Lumsden shearing shed, near Hillside, Victoria: 19 

BBW KIWI [EBBW KIWI] 

See KIWI. 

BEST & BEST 

Undated but after 1860. 20 

BLACKWALL 

- 1879 21 - c 1900 - 

BBB 

[crown] [crown] [crown] 

BEST 

17 

Outbuilding, possibly aircraft hangar, grounds of 'Ascot House', 50 Fenton St, Ascot Vale, 

Melbourne, where the cast iron joints of the trusses suggest an early date (inspected 1982); 

verandah, Walhalla Post Office, Victoria (photo from Linda Barraclough 1998). The precise 

form at Ascot Vale is not recorded, and only a partly obscured brand is visible at Walhalla. 

18 

Centennial International Exhibition, Official Record, pp 466, 964. 

19 

Reported by Neil Cox to the Gippsland Heritage Journal, 1995; also, presumably the same but 

with the first line illegible, stable / shearing shed, 'Killeen', Victoria, inspected August 2000. 

20 

Roofing of outbuildings, Warrayure homestead, Western Victoria, reported by Tim Hubbard 

2006.


Outbuilding, Woolingubrah Inn, near Cathcart, NSW: 

Various sites 22 

[crown] 

BLACKWALL 

BLACKWALL 

FIRST QUALITY 

Three Gippsland sites, probably c 1880-1890: 23 

Two sites, one of the 1880s: 24 

[union jack with the words 

'FIRST QUALITY' 

in the cross arm] 

BLACKWALL 

GALVANIZED TINNED 

[ 

annulus comprising a dotted outer circle and broken line inner circle, 

containing around the sides and top: 

THE BLACKWALL GALVANIZED IRON COMPANY 

at the bottom: 

LIMITED 

and within: 

[flag bearing a Greek cross with 'BLACKWALL' on the horizontal arm and in the corners, clockwise 

starting from the top left, 'B', 'G', 'C', 'I'] 

Three sites, one of 18891 25 

21 Sydney Exhibition 1879, Catalogue of British Section, pp 108, 182; Melbourne International 

Exhibition, 1880, Official Catalogue of the Exhibits (Melbourne 1880), II, p 336. See also 

Australasian Builder & Contractor's News, 14 May 1887, p 5. 

22 Calf shed, unspecified location, Gippsland, reported by John Little, 1995; formner Cahill 

Cheese Factory, Briagolong, reported by Linda Barraclough, 1998; barn, Rouse Hill, NSW, 

reported by John Daujotis, 1996, all with photos. Royal Arcade, Melbourne (information from 

Allom Lovell & Associates, 1994); Weston's Hut, West Kiewa Logging Road, off Mt Jim, c 

1939 (information from Graeme Butler, 1995). Reported as 'fine quality' but it seems likely that 

this actually reads 'first quality' like the others. 

23 East wall of Neil Cox's lucerne paddock shed, Soldiers Road, Hillside, Gippsland, reported by 

Neil Cox to the Gippsland Heritage Journal, 1995; Crofts, Lochend, and no 1 Barn, 

Macalister's, Bouchers Lane, both in the Orbost-Snowy River area, reported by May Leatch, 

2006. 

24 House at Carrington St, Adelaide, thought to be 1880s (reported by Bill Nairn, 1995); roof of 

the cottage, Windmill Farm, Kyneton, Victoria: undated. In 1880 the trade mark was reported 

to be this, but flanked with the words 'TRADE' and 'MARK': Melbourne Exhibition 1880, 

Catalogue, II, p 336. 

25 Shearing shed, 'Raxton', Mann's Road, Langley, Victoria (inspected May 2005); roof of shed, 

rear of 63 Jerilderie St, Jerilderie, NSW (photo supplied by Deborah Kemp 2003); roof of 'Rio 

Vista', Mildura, completed 1891 (not illustrated, but reported in Andrew C Ward & Associates, 

"Rio Vista" Conservation Analysis [no place, 1988], p 92).


[ 

annulus comprising a dotted outer circle and broken line inner circle, 

containing around the sides and top: 

THE BLACKWALL GALVANIZED IRON COMPANY 

at the bottom: 

LIMITED 

and within: 

[flag bearing a Greek cross with 'BLACKWALL' on the horizontal arm and in the corners, clockwise 

starting from the top left, 'B', 'G', 'C', 'I'] 

] 

BLACKWALL 

FIRST QUALITY 

FREDERICK BRABY see: 

CEDAR 

SUN 

BRITISH EMPIRE 

Undated. 

Salvaged by Lindsay Thompson in 1991 from a house at Orbost, Victoria, photo 

provided by May Leatch 2009. 

[upward arc of lettering: 


] 

[below and within the arc: 

crown symbol 

] 

The crown is the same as that in the ESCO brand (qv). 

BUCKLE [?] see: 

E.V. 

BUTTERFLY 

-1886- 26 

No example identified in Australia. 

CASTLE see: 

ANCHOR & CASTLE [MALLEABLE] 

CEDAR 

- 1877 - 1883 - 

Made by Frederick Braby & Co, Fitzroy Works, Euston Rd, London. 27 


26 Australasian Ironmonger, 1 December 1886, p 198. 

27 Centennial International Exhibition, Official Record, p 466.


CROWN see: 

A1 CROWN 

AUSTRALIA CROWN 

BLACKWALL 


CROWN PHŒNIX 

DAVIES CROWN 

ESCO 

GOLDEN CROWN 

GOSPEL OAK or 'GC'[crown] 

MBIBA CROWN 

MTR CROWN 

REDCLIFFE CROWN 

RR CROWN 

SKAIFFE & CO 

STALEY CROWN 

TUPPER & CARR 

VINCENT CROWN 

YOUNGS 

See also THREE CROWNS 

CONES see: 

THREE CONES 

CROWN PHOENIX 

Made by Baldwins Ltd 28 

-1927 29 -1935 30 - 


BALDWINS LTD 

[crown] 

PHŒNIX 

28 Possibly successors of E P & W Baldwin of the Wilden works, near Stanport, England, who 

showed their sheet iron and other products - but not galvanized iron - in Sydney in 1879: 

Sydney International Exhibition 1879, Official Catalogue of the British Section (London 1879), 

p 54. 

29 Sydney Morning Herald, 10 December 1927, p 14. 

30 The Mills house was moved in 1936. 

31 Back entrance of the Mills house, unspecified location, Gippsland, reported by John Little, 

1995; lean-to of a dairy at 'Highbury', Soldiers Road, Gippsland, lettering partly obscure, 

reported by Neil Cox to the Gippsland Heritage Journal, 1995; salvaged by Lindsay 

Thompson in 1991 from a house at Orbost, Victoria, photo provided by May Leatch 2009. Flat 

sheet also appears with this brand, as at Happy Hollow, near Melbourne. Barry Gallagher, of 

the office of John Patrick, reports this flat sheeting pressed into a roughcast pattern on a 

building in the Eureka Stockade reserve, Ballarat: this is branded with a crown, and the word 

'phoenix' below, but it is unclear whether the remaining words were absent or simply invisible.


Also, lacking the words 'Baldwins Ltd', undated but apparently twentieth century, 

detail not recorded - 

Pre-1915 

Two other Victorian sites:' 32 

[crown] 

PHŒNIX 

DAVIES BROTHERS & CO [same as next?] 

Wolverhampton 

-1883 33 -1886 34 

DAVIES CROWN 

-1879 35 -1888 - 

Found at a number of sites: 36 

[upward arc: 

DAVIES] 

CROWN BRAND 

[downward arc: 

BROTHERS] 

DBS 

Undated, perhaps 1920s-30s. 

Alex Cox's property, Boggy Creek Road, Hillside, Gippsland: 37 

32 

Kow Plains' homestead, near Cowangie (a replacement roof); 'Clonard' homestead, Epping, pre- 

1915. 

33 

Samuel Timmins, Examples of Iron Roofs, Vol 1 (London 1883), advertisements, no page. 

34 

Reported as 'Davis 26-gauge 5-feet to 10-feet' in the Australasian Ironmonger, 1 April 1886, p 

21. 

35 

Sydney Exhibition 1879, Catalogue of British Section, p 183; Australasian Builder & 

Contractor's News, 14 May 1887, p 5. In 1879 Gilchrist, Watt & Co were the Sydney 

representatives. 

36 

In Victoria at Strathfieldsaye; at the Lumsden shearing shed near Hillside, Victoria (as reported 

by Neil Cox to the Gippsland Heritage Journal 1995); fowl shed at the Green house, 

unspecified location, Gippsland (reported, with photo, by John Little, 1995); Weatherley hay 

shed, Newry (from the roof of the Upper Maffra Mechanics Institute, c 1884), reported with 

photo by Linda Barraclough, 1998; shearing shed, 'Raxton', Mann's Road, Langley (inspected 

May 2003); and at 'Ercildoune, Burrumbeet, in an extension thought to date from the 1920s, 

presumably recycled; shed at 'Indi', Vasey, Victoria, information from Tim Hubbard and 

Annabel Neylon, 2003, 2006, 2009. Also an example at Melrose, South Australia, original 

source unknown, as advised by Bill Nairn, 1995. The shed at Indi was originally built as the 

town hall in Stirling St, Balmoral, in 1887, and was moved to the present site in 1976. It 

appears to have been prefabricated, but whether by Davies Bros themselves, or by a Melbourne 

worker using their iron is unclear. 

There is also a Davies 'ELEPHANT BRAND' found on sheet but not corrugated iron, at Kow 

Plains homestead, Victoria. 

37 

Reported by Neil Cox to the Gippsland Heritage Journal, 1995.


DIAMOND 

See also GM DIAMOND 

D B S 

MELBOURNE 

MADE IN USA 

[Dorman, Long & Co, Diamond variety normally used in South Africa 38 

- 1910 - 1924 - 

No specimen reported: 

[diamond containing 

DL 

] 

DIAMOND 

DOLPHIN 

- 1880 -1902 - 

Sale rubbish tip, Kilmany, Victoria; 39 Moran's farm, Melrose, South Australia, 40 and 

apparently the same, but not fully legible, chookhouse, Sea Lake, Victoria. 41 

Briagolong, Victoria: 42 

Blayney, NSW, & Victorian sites: 43 

DORMAN LONG & CO 

- 1901 44 - 

PONTNEWYNYDD 

DOLPHIN 

[dolphin] 



] 

BEST BEST QUALITY 

DOLPHIN 

[dolphin] 

[dolphin] 


[BE]ST BEST QUALITY 

38 

Dorman Long & Co, Pocket Companion in Steel (Middlesborough 1910), p 159; Dorman Long 

& Co., Ltd., Handbook for Constructional Engineers (Middlesborough 1924), p 213. 

39 

Illustration supplied by Linda Barraclough, 1998. 

40 

Dating from 1880-2: information from Bill Nairn, 1995. 

41 

Mrs Ursula Nix's chookhouse, Sea Lake, reported 1998 by Linda Barraclough, who gives the 

top word as illegible, and the spelling 'galvanised'. 

42 

Briagolong, Victoria, Mechanics Institute, smoke/supper room of 1902: information from Linda 

Barraclough, 1994. 

43 

Sheds, Beveridge, Victoria, opposite former John Kelly house. 

]


No specimen reported 

See also: 

DIAMOND 

LYRE BIRD 

RPD 

DUCK 

See GAN BRAND DUCK 

D. & W. R. 

See ROBERTSON 

EAGLE 

See GOSPEL OAK EAGLE 

EBBW VALE 

See KIWI 

ECLIPSE [LASSETER'S] 

-1887- 45 

EISENWERK SCHLADER 

- 1888 46 - 

No specimen reported. 

ELEPHANT (flat sheet iron) 

See DAVIES [footnote] 

EMU [unspecified type, probably Harrington] 

1878 

First specification for bank at Kooringa, South Australia, 1878. 47 

44 J E Sears [ed], The Contractors,' Merchants,' and Estate Managers' Compendium and 

Catalogue (London 1901), p 338. 

45 Salter & Barker of Sydney, on behalf of F Lasseter, sought registration of a trademark for 

galvanised sheets consisting of the word 'Eclipse' and a descriptive illustration: Australasian 

Ironmonger, 1 May 1887, p 126. Later in the year Perry Bros of Brisbane sought Queensland 

registration: Australasian Ironmonger, 1 December 1887, p 332. In neither case is it clear 

whether it applies to flat sheets, corrugated sheets, or both. 

46 Corrugated iron shown in 1888-9 by Eisenwerk Schlader & Co, Kammerich, Berlin: Centennial 

International Exhibition, Official Record, p 736.


EMU [HARRINGTON type] 

undated 

House at Gilberton, Adelaide: 48 

EMU [NOYES type] 

-1910- 49 - 1928- 50 

None located. 

[two upward arcs of lettering: 

E.R. HARRINGTON 

CORRUGATED IRON MANUFACTURERS 

] 

[emu] 

EMU BEST 

CORRUGATED IRON 

[?] 

[circle containing: 

[emu in profile] 


EMU BEST 

] 

] 

EMU [WOLVERHAMPTON CI Co type] 51 

- 1886 52 - 1908 - 

Sites in Adelaide: & Gippsland 53 

47 

G & W Sarat Dunstan, 'Specification for the Several Works required in the Erection of Banking 

Premises for the Bank of Australasia, Kooringa' (Aberdeen [South Australia] 1878), p [6]. 

48 

As advised by Bill Nairn, 1995. 

49 

Advertised by Noyes Bros (Sydney Ltd), Building, 12 December 1910, p 7, as being imported 

under highly satisfactory conditions from the largest manufacturer in the world, and having been 

used for the Small Arms Factory, Lithgow. 

50 

J S Gawler [ed], The Architects' and Builders' Index (Victorian Edition) (Melbourne 1928), p 

26. 

51 

The Wolverhampton Corrugated Iron Company registered the Emu trademark in one or more of 

the Australian states in 1892: Australian series no A11833, control no 1441 (as advised by Terry 

Sawyer, 2004). 

52 

Australasian Ironmonger, 1 December 1886, p 198. 

53 

House at St Peter's, Adelaide, as advised by Bill Nairn, 1995; and 'Strathavon', Gippsland, as 

advised by John Little, with photo, 1995. In Nairn's case the upper lettering is obscure, whereas 

in Little's case this is clear but everything below the emu head is concealed.


[three upward arcs of lettering: 

WOLVERHAMPTON 

CORRUGATED IRON COMPANY 

MANUFACTURERS 

] 

[emu] 

EMU BEST 

GALVANIZED TINN 

8/3 in 26 G 

Woolshed, Cassilis, NSW, re-roofed at unknown date 54 

Two Gippsland locations: 55 

[upper part obscured] 

[emu] 

EMU BRAND 

BEST 

[two downward arcs: 

PATENT 


] 

[larger letters: 

.... 26 G 

] 


WOLVERHAMPTON 

CORRUGATED IRON CO. 

] 

[emu] 

EMU BEST 

GALD TINN. 

26G 

Shed at Gaash's homesdtead, Symes Rd, Harcourt, Victoria 56 

Three locations: 57 


WOLVERHAMPTON 

CORRUGATED IRON CO L[D] 

MANUFACTURERS 

] 

[emu] 

EMU BEST 

54 Inspected June 2002. 

55 Information on Briagolong from Linda Barraclough, 1994; and on the shed in Neil Cox's 

lucerne paddock, Soldiers Road, Hillside, from Neil Cox. 

56 Inspected May 2003. 

57 'Pontville', Doncaster; Strathfieldsaye', Gippsland; and a truck shed at 'Highbury', Soldiers 

Road, Hillside, the latter identified by Neil Cox.


Two Victorian examples: 58 


WOLVERHAMPTON 

CORRUGATED IRON 

] 

[emu] 

EMU BEST 


WOLVERHAMPTON 

CORRUGATED IRON C O L TD ] 

] 

EMU [emu in profile] BEST 

Re-used iron on shed, Hampton, South Australia: 59 

Two versions: 

ESCO 

undated 60 


WOLVERHAMPTON 

CORRUGATED IRON COMP 

MANUFACTURER[S] 

] 

[emu] 

EMU BEST 


GALV TIN D IRON 

] 

8/3 IN 24G 

[UPPER PART OBSCURED] 

[emu] 

EMU BEST 


GALV TIN D IRON 

] 

8/3 IN 36[G] 

ESCO 

[crown] 

FIRST QUALITY 

The crown is the same as for the BRITISH EMPIRE brand (qv). 

58 

Salvaged by Lindsay Thompson in 1991 from a house at Orbost, Victoria: photo provided by 

May Leatch, 2009; Tute's Cottage, Greenhill Avenue, Castlemaine, Victoria [later] verandah, 

inspected May 2003, but line illegible after 'CORRUGATE...'. 

59 

Illustrations supplied by Linda Barraclough, 1998. 

60 

Salvaged by Lindsay Thompson in 1991 from a house at Orbost, Victoria: photo provided by 

May Leatch, 2009.


E.V. 

undated 

Fence, 42 Heysen St, Hawker, South Australia: 61 

[elliptical striated belt with a buckle and rosette at the bottom, containing: 

E.V. 

] 

FLEUR-DE-LYS: see LYSAGHT (British) 

FORWARD. 

-1879- 

By Ash & Lacy 

No example identified: 62 

[shield containing: 

[at top left] A 

[in a diagonal ribbon sloping up from the left] FORWARD 

[bottom right] L 

] 

GAN BRAND DUCK 

-1954- 

Hay shed, unspecified location, Gippsland, built 1994 63 

[circle, ?containing: 

GAN BRAND 

[duck] 

U.S.G. # 26 x 2.5' x 6' 

Zinc coating 1.25 o2/FFC 

DAIDO 

AMAGASAKI . JAPAN 

GARRY 

-1887-1891- 64 

Garry Iron and Steel Roofing Co, Cleveland [Ohio] 

None located in Australia: nature of brand unknown. 

61 Sydney Exhibition 1879, Catalogue of British Section, p 141, where the brand is illustrated. 

62 Illustration supplied by Linda Barraclough, 1998. 


64 Garry Iron and Steel Roofing Co, Garry's Patent Iron and Steel Roofing (Cleveland [Ohio] nbo 

date [c 1887]), pp 10-11; Garry Iron and Steel Roofing Co, Garry's Patent Iron and Steel 

Roofing (Cleveland [Ohio] 1891), p 7.


GLOBE 

[possibly 1850s] - 1895 - 1913 65 - 

Various sites: 66 

[globe with latitude and longitude lines, and across the equator: 

GLOBE 

] 

SEE ALSO BLACKWALL GLOBE 

GM DIAMOND 

GO see GOSPEL OAK 

GOLDEN CROWN 

undated 

Far end of shed next to Star Hotel, Walhalla, Victoria:, re-used 67 

GOLDEN 

[crown] 

CROWN 

GOSPEL OAK 

undated 

Abandoned church, Yatina, South Australia: 68 

65 Globe was one of thre major brands sold by James Moore & Son of Melbourne in 1913: James 

Moore & Sons Pty. Ltd., Price List 96 August 1913 (Melbourne 1913), p 1. 

66 'Romford', Hesse Street, Queenscliff, 1895 (information from Meredith Hewitt, 1995. 

Briagolong Mechanics Institute, Gippsland, Victoria, billiard room, between October 1907 and 

October 1909 (information from Linda Barraclough, 1994. Dairy at Highbury, Soldiers Road, 

Hillside, Victoria (as reported by Neil Cox to the Gippsland Heritage Journal 1995)); and 

Kennedy’s Hut, an alpine hut on the Fraser Tableland, Victoria, said to date from the 1970s-80s, 

but of recycled materials (information from Graeme Butler, 1995). Also Hay barn, O'Callaghan 

property, Jack River via Yarram, Victoria, 1910: 'Globe Brand Iron' - format not fully recorded, 

but in this case the roofing is fixed with screws. 

67 Information from Linda Barraclough, 1998. 

68 Illustration supplied by Linda Barraclough, 1998. The Henty family's barn at Muntham, 

western Victoria, is reported by Allom Lovell & Associates to have what appears to be the 

original roofing iron, branded ''Gospel Oak Galvanised Tinned Iron'. However no symbol is 

mentioned, the spelling of galvanized is presumabhly incorrect, and the iron cannot be original 

if the building dates from before 1851 as claimed. Extract from a 'Pre-1851 Structures in 

Victoria Survey', by Allom Lovell & Associates, details unavailable.


GOSPEL OAK 

(53 mm [two inch] pitch) 

-1886- 

GOSPEL OAK 

-1887 69 - 

GOSPEL OAK ANCHOR 

[manufactured by Walkers 70 ] 

(75 mm pitch) 

c 1862 - c 1880s 

See also MOREWOOD'S PATENT G O 

GOSPEL OAK 

BEST QUALITY 


A number of Victorian and NSW locations: (-1889-) 71 

GOSPEL OAK 

G [anchor] O 

FIRST QUALITY 

GALVANIZED TINNED IRON 

A number of Victorian locations (-1888-): 72 

Two Victorian locations (?-1850s-): 73 

GOSPEL OAK [in an upward arc] 

G [anchor] O 

FIRST QUALITY 

GALVANIZED TINNED IRON [in a downward arc] 

GOSPEL OAK [in an upward arc] 

G [anchor] O 

FIRST QUALITY 

69 Australasian Builder & Contractor's News, 14 May 1887, p 5. 

70 Shown at the Melbourne Exhibition of 1880: Melbourne Exhibition 1880, Catalogue, II, p 339. 

Reported as GO 'Anchor', Australasian Ironmonger, 1 April 1886, p 21. 

71 Toilets, Rialto Building,. Collins St, Melbourne, 1889; roof of barn, Yering Station vineyard, 

Yarra Glen, Victoria; stable / shearing shed, 'Killeen', Victoria; the hayshed; 'Highbury', 

Soldiers Road, Hillside, Victoria (as reported by Neil Cox to the Gippsland Heritage Journal 

1995); and in the stables of the Ewin property near Blayney, New South Wales. This latter 

building is said (by its owner, the Rev Angus Ewin of Bathurst) to have been re-roofed 

immediately after World War II, but in that era of building material shortages this may well 

have been done using secondhand iron. 

72 Cole's Cottage, Cottle's bridge, c 1888; Strathfieldsaye' homestead, Gippsland, at the east end of 

the south verandah; on the stables and elsewhere at 'Kow Plains' homestead near Cowangie, 

Victoria;. Coopers Creek Hotel, Gippsland, thought ton have been moved from Erica in the 

1890s (photo from Linda Barraclough 1998). 

73 'Fence, Port Albert Maritime Museum, belived to be from an 1850s building at the wharf; 

Dundrennan', 2 Walker St, St Arnaud of 1884.


GALVANIZED TINNED [in a downward arc] 

Old Police Stables, Burra, South Australia, 1873: 74 

GOSPEL OAK 

G [anchor] O 


BEST QUALITY 

'Warrock', near Casterton, Victoria (presumed to be second grade): 75 

GOSPEL OAK 

G [anchor] O 


Great Western Store at Hill End, New South Wales: 76 

G [anchor] O 

GOSPEL OAK 

GOSPEL OAK CROWN 

South Australian and Gippsland examples: 77 

The faint outline at the right of the 'O' tends to give to appearance 'GC' 

GO 

[crown] 

Prahran Arcade, 282-4 Chapel St, Prahran, 1889-90: 78 

[G]OSPEL [OAK] 

[G] [crown] O 

[GALVANI]ZED TIN[NED IRON] 

GOSPEL OAK EAGLE 

-1873--1879 79 

Old Police Stables, Burra, South Australia, 1877 80 

74 

Advised 1998 by Linda Barraclough, who believes the iron to be original to the building. 

75 

These sheets are found mingled in the same roof as the GO 'first quality'. The building is 

alleged to date from the 1840s, but the roof was replaced after a fire at some unspecified date. 

76 

Probably the original corrugated iron roof shown in a photograph by Beaufoy Merlin in 1872. 

Keast Burke, Gold and Silver (Melbourne 1973), pl 50. 

77 

18-20 Fifth Avenue, St Peters, South Australia, believedto date from the 1880s: information 

from Bill Nairn, 1995; Boucher's, Boucher's Lane, Snowy River, Orbost area, Gippsland, 

reported by May Leatch, April 2006, illustration provided 2009. 

78 

Reported by Mark Hodkinson, 2001. 

79 

The eagle looking to the left is illustrated as the Gospel Oak 'second brand', in Sydney 

International Exhibition 1879, Official Catalogue of British Section (London 1879), p 58. 

80 

Illustrations supplied 1998 by Linda Barraclough, who believes the iron to be original to the 

building.


[eagle, looking to the left] 

EAGLE BRAND 

Recycled iron on back verandah of 62 Fourth St, Orroroo, South Australia. 81 

[upward arc: 

GOSPEL OAK 

] 

[symbol of eagle looking to the right] 

EAGLE QUALITY 



] 

House verandah, Main St, Terowrie, South Australia. 82 

GOSPEL OAK [symbol of eagle looking to the right] GALVANIZED TINNED IRON 

EAGLE QUALITY 

GOSPEL OAK THREE CROWNS 

nineteenth century 

Woolshed, 'Coan Downs', Lower Darling, 83 

GOSPEL OAK W 

undated 

Shed, Gaash's homestead, Symes Rd, Harcourt,Victoria : 84 

W H GRIFFITH 

1862- 

Not identified in Australia. 

[upward arc: 

TRADE MARK 

] 

[upright ellipse containing: 

[upward arc: 

GO[SPEL OAK] 

] 

[large letter: 

W 

] 

] 

BEST 

81 

Illustration from Linda Barraclough, 1998. 

82 

Reported by Linda Barraclough, 1998. 

83 

Not described in detail (Peter Freeman, The Homestead: a Riverina History (Melbourne 1982), 

p 84). 

84 

Inspected May 2000.


GUINEA 

Possibly -1930-31- 

South Australian & Victorian examples. 85 

GUINEA 

See also LYSAGHT GUINEA 

HAMILTON'S 86 

-1859-1880 

Not identified in Australia 

HEART 

Undated 

'Hawthorn Bank', Tarraville, Victoria: 87 

Two circles side by side, with two lines drawn to the bottom to form a heart, with a 

word within each circle, and the letter 'K' below them within the body of the heart. 

HERCULES 

See ROBERTSON 

IRIS 

Unsourced and undated: 88 

[pair of irises flanking 

[crown] 

IRIS 

SPECIAL 

BEST 

] 

JB STAR 

undated 

Old shearing shed/stable, 'Tragowal', nar Kerang, Victoria: 89 

85 Shed at Willowie, South Australia, and in exceptionally long sheets in the Mobil Sservice 

station, Main St, Terowrie, South Australia (both reported by Linda Barraclough, 1998); shed at 

Walhalla, Victoria, photo not clear enough to reliably transcribe the brand (reported 1998). 

86 C B Mayes, The Victorian Contractors' and Builders' Price-Book (Melbourne 1859), p liii. 

Hamilton's iron was that produced by Colonel Hamilton at the Hamilton Iron Works, of 

Garston, Liverpool, which was taken over by Francis Morton & Co in 1880: J M Swift, The 

story of Garston and its Church (Garston 1937), p 187. 

87 Report & photo by Linda Barraclough 1998. 

88 Douglass Baglin & Yvonne Austin, Galvo Country (Sydney 1979), p 80. 

89 Inspected 1993: probably a mistake for AB STAR, above.


[broken line star of David (ie overlapping equilateral tyriangles) containing in slanting letters: 

JB 

] 

[beneath, flanking the bottom point: 

Regd Mark 

] 

JCM 

- c 1896 -. 

Two Victorian sites: 90 : 

[broken line horizontal diamond with bosses outside the corners, containing 

JCM 

] 

JCV PHOENIX 

undated 

French's toolshed, unspecified location, Gippsland: 91 

KAWASAKI 

See RIVER BRAND KAWASAKI 

[flat diamond, containing 

JCV 

] 

PHOENIX 

KIWI [EBBW VALE] 

1920s [?] 

Shed at 'Longacres', Olinda, Victoria (Arthur Streeton property), c 1920s. 92 

Described as 'BBW [kiwi in a diamond] VALE', but probably EBBW VALE (iron 

producing district in Monmouthshire, England). 

LASSETER'S ECLIPSE 

See ECLIPSE [LASSETER'S] 

LEOPARD 

undated 

Fence opposite Mrs Ursula Nix, Sea Lake, Victoria: 93 

[oval containing 

90 

Stable, 'Stratford Lodge', Metcalfe (inspected 2004); milking shed (later shearing shed) 

'Homestead', Traralgon, Victoria, c 1896 (I had originally transcribed this as 'JCW'). 

91 

Reported by John Little, 1995. 

92 

Reported by Paul Roser, 2000. 

93 

Mrs Ursula Nix's chookhouse, Sea Lake, slide supplied 1998 by Linda Barraclough.


LION 

See MOREWOOD'S LION 

LEOPARD 

[leopard] 

] 

AUSTRALIA 


LONES, VERNON & HOLDEN 

[Lones, Vernon & Holden, Sandwell Iron and Axle Works, Smethwick, Birmingham] 

- 1906 - 

No Australian example identified: 94 

REGISTERED IRON BRAND 

[crown crown crown] 

L. V. & H. 

REGISTERED IRON BRAND 

[symbol] SANDWELL [crown with 3 symbols over, 3 below] BEST [symbol] 

[The eight symbols in the latter brand are identical, a tick with a diagonal stroke across the long arm]. 

LUDLOW 

Ludlow Brothers, Birmingham. 

- 1887 – 

No Australian example identified. 95 

L. V. & H. 

See LONES, VERNON & HOLDEN. 

LYRE BIRD 

[Dorman, Long & Co, Lyrebird variety normally used in Australia 96 ] 

- 1910 - 1924 - 

No recorded specimen: 

LYSAGHT FLEUR-DE-LYS (British) 

. LYRE BIRD . 

[lyrebird] 

. BRAND . 

94 The Australasian Handbook, &c (37th ed, London 1906), Colonial Buyer's Guide, p 22. 

95 Australasian Ironmonger, 1 March 1887, p 46. 

96 Dorman Long & Co, Pocket Companion in Steel (Middlesborough 1910), p 159; Dorman Long 

& Co., Ltd., Handbook for Constructional Engineers (Middlesborough 1924), p 213.


-1912- 

[outer ring containing: 

TRADE MARK 

[fleur-de-lis] [inner ring containing 

[crown] 

[fleur-de-lis] 

REDCLIFFE 

] 

LYSAGHT GUINEA (British) 

- 1880s - 1930s - 

This may or may not be a second grade iron at this stage. 

As branded - 1927 - 1931 - 

Two Gippsland locations: 97 

Undated shed, Willowie, South Australia: 98 

LYSAGHT GUINEA (Australian) 

c 1938 - 

A second grade iron. 99 

Two examples: 100 

LYSAGHT 

[disc containing a swordsman on a rearing horse] 

GUINEA 


GUINEA 

LYSAGHT 


GUINEA 

AUSTRALIA 

LYSAGHT ORB (British) 

See also REDCLIFFE 

- 1878 101 (in Australia) - 1921 - 

Victorian and South Australian examples: 102 

97 Mechanics Institute bio-box, Briagolong, Victoria, 1930-1, as advised by Linda Barraclough 

1994; shed, Lees Creek, Gippsland, reported, with photo, by John Little, 1995. 

98 Illustration supplied by Linda Barraclough 1998. 

99 John Lysaght (Australia) Pty. Ltd., Lysaght's Referee (17th ed, Sydney 1938), p 15. 

100 Wombat P.O. alpine hut, Gippsland, reported by Graeme Butler, 1995; collection of Lindsay 

Thompson, Gippsland, photo provided by May Leatch 2009. 

101 Dunstan, 'Banking Premises, Kooringa', p [6].


LYSAGHT 

[orb containing on the horizontal band: 

ORB 

] 


French's cow yard, unspecified location, Gippsland, 1920s: 103 

LYSAGHT 

[orb - lettering not reported] 


PATENT 

Hamilton shed, unspecified location, Gippsland 104 

LYSAGHT 

S [orb - lettering not reported] S 


PATENT 

French's engine room, unspecified location, Gippsland 105 

As in 1901: 

LYSAGHT 


BRISTOL 


ORB 

] 

Hamilton machinery shed, unspecified location, Gippsland (in red paint) 106 

LYSAGHT 


26 G 


102 

An example of this iron is on 'The Hut' at 'Dorfstedt', Poowong, Victoria, where it is said to 

have been recycled from the homestead burnt down in 1898: Miles Lewis, West and South 

Gippsland: Best Old or Renovated Farm Building ([Melbourne] 1985). Others are at the Mills 

house and at the French house (built 1921) and outbuildings, at unspecified locations in 

Gippsland, as reported by John Little, 1995, with a photo of the Mills iron. On some of the 

sheets at the Mills house, the printing is in reverse. Another, as reported by Bill Nairn, 1995, is 

32 Carlton St, Highgate, South Australia, thought to be as late as the 1920s. Four examples in 

the Snowy River asrea, Gippsland, believed to be of dates in the range 1890-1920, reported by 

May Leatch, April 2006, are Robinson's, Newmerella; Johnstone's, Bete Bolong; Morgan's, 

Marlo Road; and no 2 barn, Macalister's, Boucher's Lane. 

103 

Reported by John Little 1995. 

104 

Reported by John Little 1995. 

105 

Reported, with photo, by John Little 1995. 

106 

Reported by John Little 1995.


LYSAGHT ORB BLUE (British) 

Highest grade, for tankmaking and extreme conditions. 

- 1927 – 

Collection of Lindsay Thompson, Gippsland, photo provided by May Leatch 2009: 

LYSAGHT 


ORB 

] 


LYSAGHT ORB (Australian) 

1921 - 

(by 1927, if not before, the word 'Australia' is in blue) 

Ubiquitous: 

LYSAGHT 


ORB 

] 

AUSTRALIA 

A stronger, less ductile type, from 1932: 107 

in red: 

LYSAGHT 


ORB 

] 

AUSTRALIA 

[oval containing: 

NOT FOR 

CURVING 

] 

Tankmaking type, from 1938: 108 

in blue: 

LYSAGHT 


ORB 

] 

AUSTRALIA 

TANK MAKING 

NOTE: 

107 Lysaght Jubilee, p 51; Lysaght's Referee (1938), pp 112, 115. Reported by John Little, 1995, at 

the Mills shed, unspecified location, Gippsland, of the 1930s. Collection of Lindsay Thompson, 

Gippsland, photo supplied by May Leatch 2009. Another example from this source is difficult to 

read, but appears to have lettering between 'AUSTRALIA' and the oval, and at the bottonm 

'26CML'. 

108 Lysaght's Referee (1938), pp 15, 37, 39.


From 1938 Lysaghts incorporated numerals within the arms of the orb, indicating the 

year of manufacture; all iron made at the Port Kembla works had the letter 'K' 

incorporated into the brand; and roofing iron sheets had a six-pointed star on the 

reverse side. From about 1950 the numerals for the date ceased to appear in the 

Maltese cross of the orb, and were placed between the orb and the word 'Australia'. 

In roofing sheets the year of manufacture now appeared within the star on the reverse 

side. 

Red orb brand, containing the 'K' for Port Kembla, and the date of manufacture '60' 

for the year of manufacture, in this case 9 November 1959): 109 

[all in red] 

LYSAGHT 

9 [orb containing: 

K 

ORB] 11 

59 

AUSTRALIA 

1.75 OZS/SQ. FT. 


NOT FOR 

CURVING 

] 

[LYSAGHT] PYRAMID UNBRANDED 

A 'pyramid', 'UB' iron, presumed to be Lysaght. 

Fence adjoining shed at Willowie, South Australia: 110 

[illegible word, possibly 'UNBRANDED'] 

[pyramid, in the form of a solid black equilateral triangle] 

PYRAMID 

LYSAGHT UNBRANDED 

'UB' (or unbranded) defective iron as sold by Lysaghts after World War II: 111 

MAGPIE 

[Wolverhampton Corrugated Iron Co] 

Undated. 

Slaughterhouse, Gulf Station, Victoria: 

[oval containing 

[illegible] 

UB 

] 

109 Salvaged fromby Lindsay Thompson from an Orbost house in 1991, photo provioded by May 

Leatch 2009. An example illustrated in Douglass Baglin & Yvonne Austin, Galvo Country 

(Sydney 1979), p 80, is dated 26 [obscured] [19]60. 

110 Illustration supplied by Linda Barraclough, 1998. Also reported by Graeme Butler without 

detail, 1995, at Batty's Hut on the Black Spur, Victoria. 

111 Baglin & Austin, Galvo Country, p 80.


MALLEABLE 

See ANCHOR & CASTLE 

MARKSMAN 

Probably early twentieth century. 

Victorian and South Australian sites: 112 

MBIBA CROWN 

Probably early twentieth century. 

Three Victorian sites 113 

MERINO 

Probably twentieth century. 

Victorian & New Zealish sites: 114 

MILLERS 

- 1936 -. 

'Three Bears Cottage', 1936: 115 

W. C .I. Co. Ld. 

[magpie] 

MAGPIE 

[man with a tall headdress drawing a large bow, facing right] 

MARKSMAN 

[upward arc: 

M B I B A 

[crown] 

BEST 


BRITISH MAKE\ 

] 

[sheep] 

MERINO 

112 'Redgum Cottage', Zumsteins, Grampians, Victoria; slaughterhouse, Gulf Station, Victoria; 95 

Hall St, Semaphore, South Australia, c 1910 (reported by Bill Nairn, 1995): also illustrated in 

Baglin & Austin, Galvo Country, p 80; chicken shed at Sea Lake and loose sample at Cooper's 

Creek, near Walhalla, Victoria (report & photo from Linda Barraclough, 1998). 

113 French's Airspace, unspecified location, Gippsland (report and photo from John Little, 1995); 

'Targoora' near Wangaratta; skillion attached to dairy during conversion to shearing shed, 

possibly as late as 1960, though the iron may be earlier; unknown Gippsland location (reported 

to the Gippsland Heritage Journal, 1995). 

114 Shed, Beveridge, Victoria, opposite former John Kelly house; Vanyana hut north of Wilpena 

Pound, South Australia, illustration supplied by Linda Barraclough 1998; also Howick 

Historical Village, Auckland, New Zealand, but with an additional line 'H [crude crown] [?D]'. 

115 Source of illustration not further noted.


MILLERS 

[pair of outward pointing chevrons, like Continental quotation marks, containing:: 

WEATHERED 

IRON 

] 

REG. TRADE MARK 

S401 

AUSTRALIA 

MINEVA [?MINERVA] 

Undated. 

Geoff's cow yard, unspecified location, Gippsland, said to have been recycled in 

1956. 116 

MOON STAR 

[cf STAR & CRESCENT] 

1950s 

Two versions, used by the South Australian Housing Trust, the first also found in two 

Gippsland examples: 117 

[crescent moon with the horns pointing left, embracing a five-pointed star] 

MOON STAR 

YAWATA SEITETSU 


TOKUYAMA 

TOKUYAMA JAPAN 

SIZE. 28 x 3 x 8 

ZINC COATING 125 OZ /FT 2 

Another version, salvaged from an Orbost House by Lindsay Thompson 1991: 118 


MOON STAR 

DAIDO STEEL SHEET 

MFG. CO., 

G. NO 26 

COATING 1.50 OZ /FT 2 

Another version, at two Victorian sites: 119 


117 The Gippsland examples, at unspecified locations, reported by John Little in 1995, are Geoff's 

cow yard, said to have been recycled in 1956, and a hay shed built in 1954 (where the lettering 

is unclear). The South Australian examples were reported by Bill Nairn in 1995. Nairn has the 

lettering as 'AWATA SEITETSC'. The profile of this iron differs from the standard form in 

having a slightly more complicated flute. Linda Barraclough has also reported, 1998, flat iron 

of this brand in an old dairy to the right of the road, midway between Traralgon and Loy Yang, 

Victoria. 

118 Photo provided by May Leatch 2009.



MOON STAR 

U.S.6.: 278 x 25'x 7' 

COATING: 1.25 OZ /FT 2 

NIHON TEPPAN CO. LTD 

OSAKA. JAPAN 

[circlular medallion containing smaller type: 

EXPORT 

[between two horiziontal lines: 

JISG 3302 

STANDARD 

] 

] 

MOREWOOD & CO 

c 1855 - 1862 - 

See STAR 

No other branded specimen (of corrugated sheeting) reported in Australia, but 

possibly sheets were supplied unbranded or impermanently marked. 

MOREWOOD & ROGERS 

c 1845 - c 1855 

Only one branded specimen (of corrugated sheeting) reported, precise form unknown. 

Possibly sheets were supplied unbranded or impermanently marked. 

MOREWOOD'S LION 120 

c 1861 121 -1887- 122 

Type 1: 

No examples identified: precise layout unknown, but including 'BEST [lion] BEST' 

and 'MOREWOOD AND ROGERS'S PATENT GALVANIZED TINNED IRON. 123 

Type 2: 

Hartwich's hut, Strathfieldsaye, Victoria: 

LION BRAND 

BEST [lion] BEST 

MOREWOOD & CO 

LONDON 

AND 

[concave arc: 

119 

Bannockburn County Cafe, Bannockburn, Victoria, inspected 2009; also, less legibly, Sale 

rubbish tip, Kilmany, VictoriaIl, illustration supplied by Linda Barraclough, 1998. 

120 

Morewood & Co registered the lion trademark in one or more of the Australian colonies only in 

1883 (Australian series no All833, accession no A1183/1, control no 250 (advised by Terry 

Sawyer 2004). 

121 

Argus, 25 May 1861, p 8. 

122 

Australasian Builder & Contractor's News,14 May 1887, p 5. 

123 

Argus, 25 May 1861, p 8.


BIRMINGHAM 

] 

MOREWOOD'S PATENT G O see ANCHOR 

MTR CROWN 

-1880s- 

Sold by James McEwan & Co of Melbourne. 124 No branded specimen reported. 

MUN-AON THREE STARS 

c 1900 

(Believed to be from South China) 

Chinese Temple, Atherton, Queensland: 125 

NEWPORT S. C. W. 

undated 

Loose sample, Walhalla, Gippsland: 126 

[diamond diapered into quarters containing 

[crown] 

M T 

R 

] 

[ 

annulus of lettering comprising 

at the top: about six characters, space, 'MUN-AON' 

at the bottom: about five characters 

within: 

[star star star] 

8 

T 

J 

] 

[rectangle containing: 

MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN 

] 

[slightly wider and much deeper rectangle sharing common boundaries with those above and below, 

containing in larger lettering: 

S. C. W. 

] 

[rectangle, similar to top one, containing: 

NEWPORT 

] 

124 James McEwan & Co’s Illustrated Catalogue of Furnishings and General Ironmongery 

(Melbourne, no date [?c 1880]), p 226. 

125 Information from Seumas Andrewartha, Sydney, 1991. 

126 Information & photo from Linda Barraclough, 1998.


NLR (or NLP?) 

probably twentieth century 

Union Farm, Murtoa, Victoria, recorded only in association with THREE ARROWS, 

qv, and possibly a brand added by an agent. 127 

ORB: see LYSAGHT 

E L 

[below and between these letters a horizontal diamond containing: 

NLR (?or NLP) 

B Co 

MELBOURNE WHARF 

C [...] 

OSTRICH 

1892 

Made by the Wolverhampton Corrugated Iron Company, no example reported in 

Australia. 128 

OWL 

-1879-1886- 

Made by Ash & Lacy of Birmingham, sole agents in New South Wales, McDonnell & 

Busch of Sydney. 129 

No examples reported: 

PADDLE STEAMER 

Undated, possibly 1920s. 


[upward three-quarter circle of lettering: 

SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF THE OWL BRAND 

] 

[owl standing inside the ring] 

[paddle steamer, also rigged with 3 masts] 

127 Inspected November 1999. 

128 The company registered the ostrich trademark in one or more of the Australian colonies in 1892 

(Australian series no All731, accession no A11731/1, control no 3048 (advised by Terry Sawyer 

2004). 

129 Sydney Exhibition 1879, Catalogue of British Section, p 181 (where the brand is illustrated); 

Melbourne Exhibition 1880, Catalogue, II, p 333; Australasian Ironmonger, 1 October 1886, 

advertisements p ix; 1 December 1886, p 198. 

130 Outbuilding, J J & J S Murray property, Nine Mile Road, Koroit, Victoria. and 'Ercildoune', 

Burrumbeet, in a barn extension of the 1920s.


PAGODA 

Undated 

Re-used iron in fence at Sea Lake, Victoria 131 and Willowie, South Australia. 132 

PFEIFFER & DRUCKENMUELLER 

- 1888 – 133 


PHILLIPS'S see STORK 

PHOENIX 

See: 

BALDWIN'S CROWN PHOENIX 

JCV PHOENIX 

[chinese building] 

[box-like frame containing: 

PAGODA 

] 

BRITISH MAKE 

PINSON & EVANS 

Undated 

Fence at iron houses, Brunswick Rd, Brunswick, Victoria: 

PINSON & EVANS 

BEST 

[ 

three overlapping broken circles in trefoil form 

flanked by the words 'TRADE' and 'MARK' 

and containing the letters 

'8' 

'p' 'e' 

] 

WOLVERHAMPTON 

PORTER 

? c -1885-1890- 

Porter Iron Roofing and Corrugating Co, Cincinnati, Ohio. 134 

131 Reported by Linda Barraclough, 1998. 

132 Illustration supplied by Linda Barraclough, 1998, of a fence adjoining a shed at Willowie. 

133 Porter Iron Roofing and Corrugating Co, Porter Iron Roofing and Corrugating Co (Cincinatti 

[Ohio], no date [?c1885-90]), p.[3].


None identified in Australia: form of brand unknown. 

P.P. & S. see: 

STORK 

PROAS [?] 

Undated 


['PROAS' or similar word in mirror image] 

[ship resembling a junk] 

PYRAMID 

Undated 

Hut, junction of McKean and Concord Creeks, Store Point, Donellys Creek, north of 

Walhalla, Victoria: 136 

[pyramid outline with indistinct words] 

[indistinct words] 


EXPORT 

[horizontal band with indistinct word] 

[indistinct word] 

] 

PYRAMID 

See [LYSAGHT] PYRAMID UNBRANDED 

RAVEN 


Sale rubbish tip, Kilmany, Victoria; 137 Unknown location, South Australia: 138 

134 

Porter Iron Roofing and Corrugating Co, Porter Iron Roofing and Corrugating Co (Cincinatti 

[Ohio], no date [?c1885-90]), p.[3]. 

135 

Piece beneath the tankstand of the hall at Derby, on the Calder Highway between Marong and 

Bridgewater; report and photo from Linda Barraclough, July 1998; piece salvaged by Lindsay 

Thompson in 1992 from the roof of a house at Orbost, photo from May Leatch 2009. 

136 

Information from Linda Barraclough, 1998. 

137 

Illustration supplied by Linda Barraclough, 1998. 

138 

Reported by Bill Nairn, 1995.


[convex arc: 

BRITISH MAKE 

] 

[raven] 

[in mixed case script: 

Raven 

] 

D Lace calf shed, unspecified location, Gippsland, recycled from Yarram: 139 

BRITISH MAKE 

[raven] 

RAVEN 

REDCLIFFE 

- 1887 – 1888 – 

Made by the Redcliffe Crown Galvanized Iron Company of St Philip's, Bristol, but 

possibly later by Lysaghts. No branded specimen reported. 

REDCLIFFE CROWN 140 

1886 141 - 1913 142 - 

Made by the Redcliffe Crown Galvanized Iron Company of St Philip's, Bristol, but 

possibly later by Lysaghts, or related to Staley Crown, infra. 

-1887 – c 1927 - 

Numerous sites: 143 

[annulus bearing: 


140 For the following sites insufficient detail is recorded to assign them to the categories below: 

lean-to at the south end of the Woolingubrah Inn, near Cathcart; Stubbers Hut near Licola 

(Gippsland Heritage Journal Collection); J B Plain hut, Alpine Road, B B Plain, Victoria (as 

advised by Graeme Butler, 1995); various unspecified sites, Gippsland, some of c 1900, 

reported by John Little, 1995. 

141 As simply 'Redcliffe', reported in the Australasian Ironmonger, 1 April 1886, p 21. In 1886 the 

Redcliffe Crown Galvanized Iron Company applied to register two trademarks in Victoria, one 

consisting of two crowns within a circular band, bearing the word 'Recliffe', on the lower part, 

the the other simply the words 'Redcliffe Crown': Australasian Ironmonger, 1 August 1886, p 

111. The Windmill brand found at Orbost [qv] resembles the Redcliffe Brand in appearance, 

and is probably of cognate origin. 

142 Redcliffe was one of the three major brands sold by James Moore & Co of Melbourne in 1913, 

though whether it was branded with a crown is not apparent: James Moore & Sons Pty. Ltd., 

Price List 96 August 1913 (Melbourne 1913), p 1. 

143 Additions to Briagolong Mechanics Institute, 1887: information from Linda Barraclough, 1994. 

With the words 'trade mark': 'Old Urangeline' homestead near Brand, NSW; slaughterhouse, 

Gulf Station, Victoria; 118 Semaphore Rd, South Australia, c 1900 (as reported by Bill Nairn, 

1995); stables, 'Aeroview', Steele Street, Leongatha, Victoria, believed to date from c 1900- 

1920; loose pieces, 'Cloverdale Cottage', Endeavour Hills, undated; and an offcut piece at 

'Highbury', Soldiers Road, Hillside, Victoria (as reported by Neil Cox to the Gippsland Heritage 

Journal 1995); three ites in the Snowy River – Orbost area reported by May Leatch, April 2006: 

Russell's, Bete Bolong, of c 1927; Taylor's, Irvine Lane, undated; Trewin's, Jarrahmond, c 

1910; salvaged by Lindsay Thompson, 1991, from a house in Orbost, photo provided by May 

Leatch 2009.


- 1904 - 

Two Gippsland sites: 144 

RED CROSS 

- 1888 - 

Two examples: 145 

RELIANCE 

See A.I.5 RELIANCE 

TRADE MARK 

REDCLIFFE 

] 

[within inner circle: 

[crown] 

] 

[crown] 

REDCLIFFE 

[all in red] 

Red [Maltese cross-cum-square rosette] Cross 

RIVER BRAND KAWASAKI 

Apparently a Japanese iron made to United States standards, suggesting post-World 

War II. 

Shed across the creek at Walhalla, Gippsland: 146 

[symbol like a circle with square indentations on either side, giving a form like a double-headed rivet 

placed vertically; also a break at the top and bottom and a vertical line on the axis] 

KAWASAKI 

U S G 30 

1.25 oz/FT2 

MADE IN JAPAN 

Also at an unspecified site in Gippsland, precise format not recorded, and with variant 

wording: River Brand. Kawasaki USG 27 25 12502 EXPORT STANDARD 318- 

G3300 [same logo]. 147 

This is probably the same make as a 'River' brand ripple iron of Japanese make, 

reported by Bill Nairn in South Australia. 148 

ROBERTSON (D. & W. R.; HERCULES) 

144 Shearing shed, 'Wongalee', Boolarong via Foster, 1904; also a hayshed at 'Riverbanks', 

Yannathan South, but here the iron appears to have been re-used from elsewhere. 

145 'Homeleigh', Walcha, New South Wales, information from Heather Burke, 1997; salvaged by 

Lindsay Thompson, 1991, from a house in Orbost, photo provided by May Leatch 2009. 

146 Photo from Linda Barraclough, 1998. 

147 Reported by Graeme Butler in a structure which he believes to be of the 1920s. 

148 Unsourced, reported by Bill Nairn, 1995.


-1879- 

No example reported in Australia. 149 

RPD 

[Dorman, Long & Co, RPD variety normally used in India and South America 150 ] 

- 1910 - 1924 - 

[pointed trefoil knot containing in the lobes: 

R 

P D 

] 

RR CROWN 

Probably late nineteenth century 

Woodbourne homestead, Meredith, Victoria: 151 

SAMSON 

Undated. 

South Australia, no detail: 152 

SANDWELL 

See LONES, VERNON & HOLDEN. 

SCALES 

[crown] 

RR, with left letter reversed 

[annulus containing at top: 

SAMSON 

[band across the equator containing 

SUPERIOR 

] 

and in the lower annulus 

QUALITY 

] 

149 

D & W Robertson of Dundee showed their products at the Sydney Exhibition of 1879, including 

bar iron, boiler plate, pig iron, wire, and galvanized corrugated iron. Their brands, none of 

which has been identified in Australia, were 'ROBERTSON', 'D. & W. R.', and 'HERCULES: 

Sydney Exhibition 1879, Catalogue of British Section,, p 62. 

150 

Dorman Long & Co, Pocket Companion in Steel (Middlesborough 1910), p 159; Dorman Long 

& Co., Ltd., Handbook for Constructional Engineers (Middlesborough 1924), p 213. 

151 

Collapsed verandah on the north side of the 1857 house, probably late nineteenth century: 

inspected 2009. 

152 

Reported by Bill Nairn, 1995; also in a fence in Carter St, Terowrie, South Australia, reported 

by Linda Barraclough, 1998, though the 'Samson' is unreadable.


Undated. 

34 Waterloo Crescent, St Kilda: 

[scales, with the words 'TRADE' and 'MARK' vertically on either side of the pillar, reading upwards 

and downwards respectively] 

PATENT 


SCIMITARS 

See TUPPER & COMPANY 

SCULLY 

- 1899 - 

Scully Steel & Iron Co, Chicago. 153 

No examples reported in Australia. 

SEACOMBE 

- 1869 - 

Seacombe Forge, Rivet & Bolt Company, Seacombe, near Birkenhead, England. 154 

No example reported in Australia. 

SECONDS 

c 1950s. 

Mills machinery shed and cow yard, unspecified location, Gippsland. 155 

SHAMROCK 

- 1886 - 156 


SHIP see: 

PADDLE STEAMER 

[rectangle, containing: 

SECONDS 

K 

AUSTRALIA 

] 

153 Scully Steel & Iron Company, Stock List (Chicago 1899), p 27. 

154 Advertisement for galvanized corrugated sheets: J L Steinhardt, The Illustrated Guide to the 

Manufacturers, Engineers, and Merchants of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales (London 

1869), p 471. 


156 Australasian Ironmonger, 1 December 1886, p 198.


PROAS 

SKAIFFE & CO 

- 1889 - 

'Warrock', near Casterton: 157 

SNOWFLAKE 

- 1887 - 158 


[crown] 

[double circle with at the top of the annulus 

[triangle containing 'B'] 

and in the balance: 

SKAIFF & Co. LONDON E] 

TRADE 

MARK 

STAFFORDSHIRE 

Staffordshire Galvanized Iron Co of Walsall 

? 1850s - . 

Form of brand unknown, none identified. 

STALEY CROWN 

-1930- 159 

French's garage, unspecified location, Gippslasnd, recycled. 160 

STAR, see 

AB STAR 

JB STAR 

MOON STAR 

THREE STARS 

[annulus in broken lines, bearing: 

TRADE MARK 

STALEY 

] 

[within the annulus: 

[crown] 

] 

157 

In the bullock byre. 

158 

Australasian Ironmonger, 1 March 1887, p 46. 

159 

Dr Matt Schmidt, reports the iron in two musterers' huts in New Zealand, one of them built 

entirely of this iron in 1930. 

160 

Reported, with photo, by John Little, 1995; also reproduced, Gippsland Heritage Journal, 19 

(March 1996), p 63.


STAR 

-1861- 

Made by Morewood & Co. 161 

10 Greeves Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, barrel vaulted roof believed to be the 

original. 162 

[ 

six-pointed star made up of two triangles overlapping head-to-toe, and containing: 

3 

] 

STAR & CRESCENT 

[see also MOON STAR] 

- 1886 - 163 


STERLING 

Undated 

Cottage on The Crescent, Glenmaggie, Victoria. 164 

[circlular annulus in broken line containing within the top: 

STIRLING 

and within the bottom: 

BRAND 

and in the circle inside the annulus: 

£] 

STORK 

Phillips's 

- 1886 165 - 1887- 166 

Re-used iron in fences at Sea Lake, Victoria: 167 


STORK BRAND 

[smaller circle containing a stork, looking left, with a flag on a pole carried over its shoulder] 

P.P.& S.] 

Victorian and NSW sites: 168 

161 Argus, 25 May 1861, p 8. 

162 Information and photographs from Tim Hubbard, 1990. 


164 Photo supplied by Linda Barraclough, 1998. 


166 Australasian Builder & Contractor's News, 14 May 1887, p 5. 

167 Report and photo from Linda Barraclough, 1998. 

168 'Cloverdale Cottage', lot 4/324 Hallam North Rd, Endeavour Hills, probably begun 1870s, but 

this iron found on a twentieth century skillion, 1998; arch-roofed shed of recycled iron, 

Monalong, near Berrigan, NSW.



STORK BRAND 

[smaller circle containing a stork, looking left, with a flag on a pole carried over its shoulder] 

[?P].T.& CO.] 

SUN 

- 1877 - 1888 - (probably not before 1880 in Australia) 

Made by Frederick Braby & Co, Fitzroy Works, Euston Rd, London. 169 

Numerous examples: 170 

SUNFLOWER 

- 1886 - 


SWORD & TORCH 

Undated 

Various sites: 171 

TARGET 


Briagolong, Victoria: 172 

[broken circle containing: 

SUN BRAND 

[sun] 

F. BRABY & CO. 

] 

[fist clutching at the centre a crossed sword and flaming brand] 

SWORD & TORCH 

169 Sydney Exhibition 1879, Catalogue of British Section, p 183; Centennial International 

Exhibition, Official Record, p 466. 

170 Gulf Station, Healesville, Victoria; Blood's Cottage, Box Hill [infra]; Wombat P.O. alpine hut, 

Gippsland (presumably reroofed, as the hut dates from 1869: reported by Graeme Butler, 1995); 

Harrick's Cottage, Keilor Park, near Melbourne (Allan Willingham, Harrick's Cottage (North 

Fitzroy [Victoria]), p 265); stable, Ferndale Manor, Castlemaine, Victoria (inspected 2004); 

lean-to, Burger's cottage, near Penshurst, inspected 2007; the former weighbridge house, Pine 

Creek Railway Station, Northern Territory (inspected by the present writer in 1980 but 

subsequently demolished), apparently contemporary with the station itself, of 1888-9; Rouse 

Hill, NSW (information from John Daujotis, 2006); salvaged by Lindsay Thompson, from a 

house in Orbost, 1991 (photo prov\ided by May Leatch 2009); re-used in a fence, 42 Heysen St, 

Hawker, South Australia, illustration supplied by Linda Barraclough, 1998; fence, Craddock 

Avenue, Hawker, SA, as advised by Linda Barraclough, 1998 (not described); 62 Fourth St, 

Orroroo, South Australia, Reported by Linda Barraclough, 1998; also two South Australian 

examples, unlocated [reported by Bill Nairn, 1995]. 

171 Sheds, Beveridge, Victoria, opposite former John Kelly house; 'Taminick' homestead and 

outbuildings, Taminick, near Glenrowan, Victoria (information from Deborah Kemp, 1996). 

172 Mechanics Institute, Briagolong, reading/supper room additions originally of 1878, but 

apparently re-roofed: information from Linda Barraclough, 1994.


THREE ARROWS 


Union Farm, near Murtoa, Victoria: 173 

BRITISH MAKE 

[target, with a large arrow in the centre] 

TARGET BRAND 

[three crossed arrows, one vertical, others angled either way, points upward, and across the intersection 

in a rather small face: 

THREE ARROWS BRAND] 

[?] SHEETS 

[?] 2x8/3x2 

THREE CONES 

- 1886 - 174 


THREE CROWNS 

See: 

AMOR 

EBBW 

GOSPEL OAK 

LONES, VERNON & HOLDEN 

T W & J W WALKER 

THREE STARS 

See: 

MUN-AON 

TOKUYAMA, see MOON STAR 

TRAEGERWELLBLECH 175 

(structural corrugated iron, various sizes) 

1883 (in Australia) - 1908 - 176 

173 

Inspected 1999: recorded only in conjunction with the NLR brand, qv, which may be that of an 

agent. 

174 

Australasian Ironmonger, 1 December 1886, p 198: perhaps a misprint for Three Crowens. 

175 

Hein Lehmann & Company registered the Traegerwellblech brand in one or more of the 

Australian colonies in 1883: Australian series no A11833, control no 576; A11731, control no 

1054 (advised by Terry Sawyer, 2004). 

176 

Numerous examples, advertisements &c, see text.


TUPPER & CARR 

London & Birmingham 

c 1850 – 1856 – [see text] 


TRAEGERWELLBLECH 

TUPPER & COMPANY 

(54 mm pitch corrugated tiles, 970 x 570 mm) 

1864 - ?1870s 

Shed, Strathfieldsaye, Victoria: 


(75 mm pitch corrugated sheets) 

?1850s - 1860s 

Old Melbourne Gaol: 177 

Four examples 178 

[crown] 

['TC' monogram] 


TUPPER & COMPY. 

] 

MANUFACTURERS 

LONDON & BIRMINGHAM 

TUPPER AND COMPANY 

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM 

[crown] 

[‘TC’ monogram] 

[crown] 

BEST [TC monogram] BEST 

[upward arc: 

TUPPER AND COMPY 

MANUFACTURERS 

] 


LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM] 

Stable, 'Boldrewood' station, Lake Boga, Victoria: 179 

177 

Allan Willingham, Melbourne Gaol Conservation Analysis (Melbourne '1854' [July 1985]), p 

142. 

178 

On a shed adjoining 92 Victoria Street, Eaglehawk, Victoria (information from Halina 

Eckersley, 1996); barn, Rouse Hill, NSW (information from John Daujotis, 2006); oolshed, 

Merino Downs & woolshed, Warrayure homestead, Victoria (information from Timothy 

Hubbard 2006).


Cook house, Kow Plains, Victoria: 180 

[outer circle of lettering: 

TUPPER AND COMPANY 

MANUFACTURERS 

] 

[inner circle of lettering: 

61A MOORGATE ST. 

LONDON 

] 

[upward arc: 

WORKS] 

[upward arc 

LIMEHOUSE] 

& 


BIRMINGHAM] 

[crossed scimitars] 

[ 

two lines in an upward arc: 


61a MOORGATE St) 

] 

[upward arc: 

LIMEHOUSE 

] 

WORKS 


BIRMINGHAM 

] 

[two lines in a downward arc: 

LONDON 

MANUFACTURERS 

] 

T W & J W WALKER, THREE CROWNS 

- 1874 - 

Of Wolverhampton, but possibly a branch or transmutation of the Walkers of Tipton. 

Four sites, Victoria: 181 

[crown crown crown] 

T.W J.W 

179 The building is possibly of the 1850s, but the iron has been re-used in this location, and may be 

from the homestead itself, which has been demolished. 

180 As advised by Jocelyn Lindner, 2001. The building is undated, but thought to be before 1870. 

181 Outbuilding, J J & J S Murray property, Nine Mile Road, Koroit; Eeyuk homestead, near 

Camperdown; Mills house, unspecified location, Gippsland (reported, with photo) by John 

Little, 1995), butcher's shop, Marida Yallock (information from Mary Lewis 2007). Eeyuk dates 

from 1874: the brand is on the verandah iron, and the roofing iron, now covered over, is 

believed to be the same.


UB 

See LYSAGHT UNBRANDED 

VINCENT CROWN 

Undated, - c 1930 - 182 

Happy Hollow, Greensborough, Victoria: 183 

VINE LEAF 

- 1886 - 184 


W, see 

GOSPEL OAK W 

WATTLE 

Undated 

Derby, near Marong, Victoria: 185 

[oval annulus containing 

EXTRA 

BEST 

] 

[in the centre of the oval: 

WATTLE 

] 

WB 

Undated 

Mills machinery shed, unspecified location ,Gippsland, Victoria, said to ve recycled c 

1960: 186 

26 x 26 x 96 

74 

[flat diamond containing: 

WB 

] 

AUSTRALIA 

182 D & W Chandler Ltd [catalogue] (Melbourne, no date [c 1930]), p 112, and catalogue no 43 [c 

1930]. p 109. However by about 1936 Chandlers were selling Orb instead: catalogue no 48, p 

73. 

183 Inspected 1992: CHECK THIS. 


185 Corrugated iron hall at Derby, on the Calder Highway between Marong and Bridgewater, report 

& photo from Linda Barraclough, July 1998. 

186 Reported, with indistinct photo, by John Little, 1998.


W.C.I. Co 

See MAGPIE 

WEBB 

c 1920s 

Wardell, Penrith, NSW: 187 

WELLINGTON 

Undated 

House at Orbost, Victoria: 188 

[shield containing: 

WEBB 

] 

[annulus with upper part vacant, and in lower part: 

WELLINGTON BEST 

] 

[inner circle containing profile head of the Duke of Wellington, facing left] 

WINDMILL 

A. Undated 

Strathfieldsaye, Victoria: 

B. Undated 

House at Orbost, Victoria: 189 

[windmill symbol] 

TRADE MARK 

WINDMILL 

BEST BEST 

[annulus containing: 

BEST.WINDMILL.BEST 

] 

[inner circle containing Windmill symbol] 

WOLVERHAMPTON CORRUGATED IRON CO. 

See also EMU, MAGPIE, OSTRICH 

- 1887 - 190 

187 In a verandah, added to the older house between the two world wars (inspected 2002). 

According to the owner, Mr Hamer, the iron was sold and branded by E Webb & Co, a 

Bathurst deepartmnent store. 

188 Salvaged by Lindsay Thompson c 1991 (photo provided by May Leatch 2009). 

189 Salvaged by Lindsay Thompson c 1991 (photo provided by May Leatch 2009). 

190 Presumably the same as the Wolverhampton Iron Co which won a second class award at the 

Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition of 1887 for corrugated galvanized iron: Australasian Ironmonger, 1 

November 1887, p 292.


Undated stables / shearing shed, 'Killeen', Victoria: 

YOUNGS 

Undated. 191 

WOLVERHAMPTON 

CORRUGATED [IRON] 

MANUFACTURERS 

[convex arc: 

TRADE MARK 

] 


[upward arc, illegible: 

? ... JO ...... 

] 

[horizontal: 

IRON 

] 

[concave arc: 

STAFFORDSHIRE 

] 

[underneath, manually painted: '5/3'] 

[crown] 

YOUNGS 

191 Sheds, Beveridge, Victoria, opposite former John Kelly house; 'Taminick' homestead and 

outbuildings, Taminick, near Glenrowan, Victoria (information from Deborah Kemp, 1996).

APP A. APPENDIX Corrugated Iron CORRUGATED ... - Miles Lewis

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