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Originally Posted by John W
It is fascination to look at the Cowley Roller's motion and see the similarities to UK based makers.
They have taken bits from several and blended them into a very useful looking product.
Ballarat must have been a tremendous centre of manufacturing industry.
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You are correct. Ballarat was indeed a manufacturing hub which started out because of the Gold rush and the need to build and maintain all the associated equipment.
There is still manufacturing there today but there was once much more.
Ronaldson Tippet was there as was Jelbart and many more.
See here -
https://bih.federation.edu.au/index.php/Foundries