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4 unusual facts about Langlands foundry


Brunswick brickworks

In 1887 the company had ordered Bradley & Craven automatic brick presses, which were fabricated by Langlands foundry and a year later purchased another at the centennial exhibition.

Hawthorn Bridge

The pioneer Melbourne foundry of Langlands and Co. then purchased the salvaged bridge materials for ₤2,000, and spent several hundred pounds in repairing or modifying bridge sections.

Langlands foundry

Langlands Foundry was an incubator for a number of engineers including Herbert Austin (1866–1941) who worked as a fitter at Langlands, and went on to both work on the Wolesely Shearing machine and to found the Austin Motor Company.

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The company's products including stamper batteries and ore crushing mills, which could found distributed over Australasia from Charters Towers to the Thames goldfields of New Zealand.



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