John Monash: Engineering enterprise prior to WW1.

Factory for Monier pipes and other precast products, Burnley St Nth, Richmond.

Sections of reinforced concrete pipe stored in the yard of the Richmond factory, dominated by a derrick crane. Display of precast products, mainly circular and ovoid pipe sections.

Storage areas at the precast products factory of the Monier Pipe Company.
From the Company brochure, 1907, courtesy Mr A. G. Lynch.

The Monier Pipe Company was formed in Melbourne in 1901. In 1905 the design-and-construct operations of Monash & Anderson were brought together with the MPC factory to form the 'Reinforced Concrete & Monier Pipe Construction Company' (known in these web pages as RCMPC).

Many people continued to refer to the factory as MPC for years after; while those dealing with the design-and-construct operations of RCMPC, such as architects and municipal engineers, commonly referred to it as the 'Reinforced Concrete Company'.

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