Hi ODK members,
This is the story of a company and the man that created that company.
Marino Products Pty. Ltd. was a Brisbane-based company whose products
sold around the world.
The company founder - Dudley Russell Dowling (1894 - 1976) was an ANZAC, an engineer,
an inventor, a manufacturer, importer, and successful business man.
This series of posts explores his company.
Specifically, I make mention of Dowling's 'Marino Pumps', and the company's importation
of American Johnson outboards and generators, British Britannia outboards, Chapman inboards, the
distribution of early rotary mowers - the British 'Ladybird' and 'Rotoscythe',
and manufacture of the Marino Mowall rotary slasher.
My contention is that Marino Products' contribution to vintage machinery is important.
Dudley Dowling invented pump designs of World-wide importance and he promoted locally-made
and imported agricultural, horticultural, and marine products to a wide Australian audience.
THE COMPANY
Marino Products Pty Ltd was incorporated in 1930.
They started from small premises at 43 Creek Street in the Brisbane CBD, sub-let from
L. Dobell & Co., who were successful typewriter and calculator agents.
This was at the start of the Great Depression and business must have been ... challenging.
I have found no advertising from 1930. But, by late 1931 frequent and numerous
advertisements in rural newspapers reveal an emerging company with product diversity.
CONTENTS
[1] This post
[2] What's In a Name?
[3] Rabbits
[4] The Sea
[5] Let there be Light!
[6] Marino Moves To Barry Parade
[7] The Chapman Pups
[8] Marino & Mowers - The Ladybird
[9] Marino & Mowers - The Rotoscythe
[10] Marino Moves to Bulimba
[11] Marino Patents
[12] Britannia Outboards
[13] Marino Firefighter
[14] Marino Mowall
[15] Statement of Significance
