James Martin & Co was an Australian engineering company which progressed from making agricultural equipment to making railway locomotives.
The James Martin & Co. works yard (1906, when production of agricultural machinery continued)
Workers in the 1890s, holding up the tools of trade used in manufacturing locomotives and agricultural and mining equipment
Workers leaving the factory (1907)
Sketch of the factory (about 1890)
May Brothers and Company was an engineering and manufacturing firm founded in Gawler, South Australia in 1885 by Frederick and Alfred May.
James Martin & Co
…The company moved into the production of large pumping equipment, heavy ore crushing plant and winch drums. In 1885, May left the company and founded May Brothers & Co. with his brother Alfred. By 1888 James Martin had acquired more land to the south of the foundry having secured a contract for the manufacture of 52…
May Brothers Damp Weather Thresher and Reaper, as featured in the "Australasian Implement & Housing Furnishing Co. Catalogue 1916–17"