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Gerard, Alfred Edward (1877 - 1950)

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Born: 11 August 1877 Aberdeen, South Australia. Died: 13 October 1950.

Alfred Edward Gerard founded Gerard & Goodman, an electrical merchandising business in Adelaide (1907). In 1921 he founded Gerard Industries, the first in Australia to manufacture conduit fittings for sheet metals so that they could expand or contract. His four sons later joined the business, which manufactured Clipsal products and was still in family hands in the 1980s.

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Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P003555. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001
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