Colgate-Palmolive Pty. Ltd. - interviews with former employees, used in the compilation of 'Down the...
Colgate-Palmolive Pty. Ltd. - interviews with former employees, used in the compilation of 'Down the 'Olive: a memory of Colgate-Palmolive in Balmain, New South Wales', 1994
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Date
1994
Call Numbers
MLOH 183
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Contents
Sound Recordings - 37 cassettes - 37hrs
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Fonds
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Sound Recording : CY MLOH 183/1-37
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Contents
1994; Interview with Jean Mathews, 22 Sept. 1994. (Call No.: CY MLOH 183/1)
1994; Interview with Jack Shaw, 31 Aug. 1994. Began at the Balmain plant in 1936, aged fourteen. (Call No.: CY MLOH 183/2)
1994; Interview with Ray Bransby, 12 July 1994. (Call No.: CY MLOH 183/3)
1994; Interview with Pat Madden, 12 July 1994. Began work at...
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Full title
Colgate-Palmolive Pty. Ltd. - interviews with former employees, used in the compilation of 'Down the 'Olive: a memory of Colgate-Palmolive in Balmain, New South Wales', 1994
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Blaydon, Elva
Bransby, Ray
Burke, Shirley
Burke, William Anthony
Cargill, Lillian
Collyer, Raymond Leo
Dale, Ray
Gardiner, Robert M.
Gourlie, Adele Isabel
Handley, Geoffrey Howland
Heggen, Kenneth
Holcombe, John
Isaac, Joyce
Lackey, Else
LePlatrier, Rene
McLuckie, James
Madden, Pat
Manley, Frank
Mathews, Jean
Moran, Alan
Pearce, Grace
Pegram, Catherine
Powell, Patricia
Rogers, Ernest
Rogers, Myrtle
Santry, Eileen
Shaw, Jack
Notes
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Transcripts of tapes are available.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Colgate-Palmolive Pty. Ltd. in 1994
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Administrative / Biographical history
Palmolive, a Milwaukee based company, opened a soap factory at East Balmain in 1923. In 1924 Palmolive soap was launched in Australia.
By 1925 one hundred and forty four people were employed at Balmain by Palmolive, ninety six in the factory and forty eight in the office and sales sections.
In 1926 Palmolive merged with Peet and in 1928,...
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Call Numbers
MLOH 183
Record Identifier
1DrmDQg9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1DrmDQg9
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Reference code
412159
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