RESCH'S/LAGER, LETS THINK ABOUT FOUNDRIES

Submitted by Anthony on Tue, 19/01/2016 - 16:26

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Shown below are well known Australian openers advertising Resch's/Lager. The image of the Type A opener is from an Ebay sale in 2015, the length stated as being 86mm. There is what may be the foundry mark 'W' or 'M' on the handle. What was the name of the foundry? The image of the Type C2 opener was sent in from Australia and is shown to be 98mm.

 

Edmund Resch opened the Lion Brewery in Australia in 1879. In 1892 he bought the Waverley Brewery in Sydney. In 1900, he built a large brewery in Waterloo and transferred the Waverley Brewery name to it. In 1929, Resch's was taken over by Tooth and Co, and the name of the brands continued. See informative links on Resch's brewery (Wiki, Australian Dictionary of Biography, and The Pittwater Online News, October 5 - 11, 2014: Issue 183). A Resch's Lager bottle with label from 1947 is shown here.

Newspaper advertisements referring to Resch's Lager are shown below with original links provided.

Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932), Saturday 3 October 1903, page 33


Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW : 1900 - 1954), Wednesday 15 December 1915, page 8


Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser (NSW : 1901 - 1940), Thursday 23 June 1927, page 4


The Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1942), Thursday 25 July 1929, page 32

Any feedback or information about Resch's most welcome. What was the name of the foundry with the 'W' or 'M' mark? Many of the Type C2 Australian openers in particular may have been cast in Australia (not necessarily the one posted here). Can anyone provide any information on the foundries that might have produced these openers?

Anthony

Fri, 29/01/2016 - 16:20

In the 1930’s there could have been 200 plus foundries in the Sydney area alone. Some sources of information follow:

Australian foundries directory

Ballarat and District Industrial Heritage Project

Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. The B.H.P. review: jubilee number, June 1935: fifty years of industry and enterprise, 1885 to 1935. Melbourne. 166 pages.

Emmerson, A.J. & Associates write about a range of topics, including Iron and Steel in From an Engineers Notebook, including Part 6, Early Australian Iron and Steel

Foundry, mould making

Hughes, H. 1964. The Australian iron and steel industry, 1848-1962. Parkville, Victoria: Melbourne University Press ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 213 pages.

Irwin, H, 2015. Richard Dawson's Australian Foundry. On the dictionaryofsydney site.

Jack, I., & Cremin, A. 1994. Australia's age of iron: history and archaeology. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.175 pages.

Johnston-Liik, E.M., Liik, George and Ward, R.G., A Measure of Greatness: the Origins of the Australian Iron and Steel Industry, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1998, 376 pp. ISBN/ISSN 0522847218

MCKECHNIE CAST IRON AND STEEL JOBBING FOUNDRY, Gepps Cross, South Australia, Established 1947

Southern, J. 1987. THE HISTORY OF IRON SMELTING IN AUSTRALIA. Illawarra Historical Society. University of Wollongong open access digital repository of research outputs.

Wagga Iron Foundry

Anthony

Thu, 11/02/2016 - 13:25

Thanks to Wayne from Australian Type Foundries, who pointed out that the foundry mark is "definitely a 'M' not a 'W', because the sides of the letter are straight rather than angled".