What's In a Name?Thinking about it, the Name
'Marino' could take on two quite different meanings:
the first (and obvious) that the company made products for sheep. They did ...
The
Marino Jetter was probably Marino's first product.
And, of course, an extension of the word 'Marino' would also suggest that the company
made products for the rural sector generally. They did,
with a range of specialised and general-use pumps.
The
Marino Jetter was a pump and drenching gun that was used to spray sheep with chemicals
that combated against blowfly in sheep. From the extensive advertising it is clear that
these were highly successful products. Here is an early advertisement from
1931:-
Here are advertisements from 1932 illustrating that Marino Products was expanding ...
securing important agents like the huge Moffat-Virtue Company and displaying their
products at exhibitions:-