Chubb Australia Ltd. - albums, ca. 1890-1960s

Waterloo Works, ca. 1921-25

Chubb Australia Ltd. aggregated collection of records

Albums are numbered consecutively within the boxes:
1-3. Interior and exterior views of Chubb & Sons Lock & Safe Co. Ltd. in the United Kingdom (Call No.: Box 1-2)
4. Views of Western Australia and fire damage to buildings in Melbourne (Call No.: Box 2)
5-9. Chubb's Australian Company Ltd. works at Waterloo, Sydney. Including official ceremony [opening 1921?] with Managing Directors Emory Chubb, Chris. Langsworth, George & Albert Richard, and staff motor picnic 1925. Also factory workers, equipment and machinery, quality tests against fire and blowpipe attack. (Call No.: Box 3)
10-16. Contracts for various banks in Sydney and interstate including: Commonwealth Bank Perth (including transportation of 'anti-blowpipe' safes from Sydney factory). Bank of New South Wales Sydney, including bank interiors, safe deposit and Chubb's patent tangbar reinforcements. Rural Bank of NSW Sydney, Commonwealth Bank Adelaide, Hobart & Brisbane, Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney and Government Savings [later Commonwealth] Bank Sydney (including circular strongroom door), Bank of NSW Melbourne, Rural Bank of NSW Newcastle. Plus various Chubb showrooms and city streetscapes. (Call No.: Box 3-4)
17-34. Equipment including strongroom doors (anti-blowpipe, watertight, fire and thief resistant), cabinets and cupboards, safes, safety deposit lockers (including factory works), grilles, lift doors and lift cars (for various city buildings). (Call No.: Box 4-6)
35-39. Damage due to fire and burglary (Chubb safes survive). Fires include Marcus Clark building Newtown and Langdon & Langdon's timber yard Pyrmont. Burglaries include Commercial Bank Enmore. (Call No.: Box 6-6a)
40-41. Chubb Australia staff Christmas parties ca. 1952-1954 (Call No.: Box 6a)

Chubb Australia Ltd. - albums, ca. 1890-1960s

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