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4 unusual facts about Meadowbank Manufacturing Company


Meadowbank Manufacturing Company

Meadowbank Manufacturing Company was an Australian manufacturer in Meadowbank, New South Wales

Land at Meadowbank, New South Wales was cleared, a railway siding built and a tram road made to the wharf.

Meadowbank, New South Wales

Meadowbank Manufacturing Company Works was the first industry in Meadowbank, established on 95 acres of land in 1890, with frontage to the Parramatta River and easy access to the railway producing agricultural equipment for the local area and throughout the country.

Rail rolling stock in New South Wales

In 1921, 101 wooden bodied driving-motor cars (later numbered C3000–3100) were built by Ritchie Bros and Meadowbank Manufacturing Company C3045 (now preserved) was built by the railway workshops as a prototype, but became the very last to enter traffic in 1923.



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