Photocopy of an article from The Annual Review of Queensland, December 1902. Used with permission and by courtesy of the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
List
(page 2) of the Partnership's Shareholders at foundation.
Macdonald Hamilton and Co. Records.
Guildhall Library, London. MSS Ms 27787
Front facade of projected Office for
Macdonald, Hamilton and Company
in Melbourne, c.1929
and ground floor plan of the projected
new building for Macdonald, Hamilton and Company
in Collins Street, Melbourne, circa 1929.
Cornwall
House in Melbourne,
pre-1920 office of
P and O, British India and A.U.S.N. Companies
(Michael Ian Byard collection)
The Sydney office of
Macdonald, Hamilton and Company
was situated in the
Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Building
at 247 George Street. A building was constructed by the Inchcape family for the Melbourne Office and named Peninsular House, and was located at 311 Collins Stree, Melbourne. At present there does not appear to be a photograph of this building.
The list of Share Points given for each Partner, 1939,
Macdonald Hamilton and Co. Records.
Guildhall Library, London. MSS Ms 27787
Cover of the Contract of Partnership,
Macdonald Hamilton and Co. Records.
Guildhall Library, London. MSS Ms 27787
Opposite:
The Union Steamship Company’s Niagara which was sunk by a German mine off Auckland New Zealand on 19th June 1940.
Of her cargo of 590 gold bars, weighing nearly eight tons, valued at £2, 500,000, 555 ingots valued at £2, 379,000 was salvaged by the syndicate comprising the partners of Macdonald Hamilton & Co., the partners of Gibbs Bright and Co. and William Crosby and Co. Pty. Ltd.,which was named United Salvage Pty. Ltd.
The story of the salvage is told by James Taylor in Gold from the Sea, The Epic Story of the Niagara’s Bullion. (Sydney, 1943, Reprint 1947)
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(Michael Ian Byard Collection)
Macdonald, Hamilton and Company Pty. Ltd
pages, by clicking on the link below.
History
of
Macdonald, Hamilton and Co.
(Introduction)