Ballarat: ghost signage - Hardies
Robert Sim Building Supplies, 102 Humffray St Sth., Bakery Hill , Ballarat, VIC, AU.
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On the rusty roof of this Ballarat building supply business is a 'ghost sign' for HARDIES.
James Hardie immigrated to Australia in 1888 from Linlithgow, Scotland, and established a business importing oils and animal hides. Andrew Reid, also from Linlithgow, came to join Hardie in Melbourne, and became a full partner in 1895. When Hardie retired in 1911, he sold his half of the business to Reid.
The company was listed on the Sydney Stock Exchange in 1951. At the time, the company manufactured products from asbestos cement sheet and other related building material.
By the middle of the C20th., James Hardie had become the largest manufacturer and distributor of building products, insulation, pipes and brake linings containing asbestos.
In Australia, it operated asbestos plants in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. Working with the products containing asbestos - including asbestos cement - caused people to develop various pleural abnormalities such as asbestosis and malignant mesothelioma.
By the mid 1980s, James Hardie invented the modern day asbestos-free fibre cement material and had transitioned production entirely to fibre cement, a product consisting largely of Portland cement, sand, and wood fibres.
James Hardie was the naming rights sponsor of the Bathurst 500/1000 motor-racing from 1968-1987.
Ballarat: ghost signage - Hardies
Robert Sim Building Supplies, 102 Humffray St Sth., Bakery Hill , Ballarat, VIC, AU.
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On the rusty roof of this Ballarat building supply business is a 'ghost sign' for HARDIES.
James Hardie immigrated to Australia in 1888 from Linlithgow, Scotland, and established a business importing oils and animal hides. Andrew Reid, also from Linlithgow, came to join Hardie in Melbourne, and became a full partner in 1895. When Hardie retired in 1911, he sold his half of the business to Reid.
The company was listed on the Sydney Stock Exchange in 1951. At the time, the company manufactured products from asbestos cement sheet and other related building material.
By the middle of the C20th., James Hardie had become the largest manufacturer and distributor of building products, insulation, pipes and brake linings containing asbestos.
In Australia, it operated asbestos plants in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. Working with the products containing asbestos - including asbestos cement - caused people to develop various pleural abnormalities such as asbestosis and malignant mesothelioma.
By the mid 1980s, James Hardie invented the modern day asbestos-free fibre cement material and had transitioned production entirely to fibre cement, a product consisting largely of Portland cement, sand, and wood fibres.
James Hardie was the naming rights sponsor of the Bathurst 500/1000 motor-racing from 1968-1987.