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Operator with a high-powered automatic bottle-capping machine, Chesebrough-Pond's, Clayton, 1956

Title: Industry - Factories - Cosmetics - Operator with a high-powered automatic bottle-capping machine - In the foreground is a fully automatic bottle labeller - These units are part of equipment at the cosmetics of Chesebrough-ponds Inc, at Clayton, Victoria

Principal credit: photographer Neil Murray

Date range: 1956

 

The Chesebrough factory at 1970 Dandenong Road, Clayton, was officially opened on 1 October, 1953. Processing and packing Vaseline brand products, the factory cost about £250, 000 to build.

 

It was announced in April 1955 that Chesebrough and Pond's would merge, a process formalised in mid-1955 creating Chesebrough-Pond's. In July it was reported that the new company's Australian headquarters would be the existing Chesebrough site in Clayton.

 

See locale on Google Maps.

 

Source: NAA

Series/Control symbolA1200, L21188

Item ID9759858

Item locationCanberra

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Uploaded on September 13, 2023