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Austral Otis was a Melbourne engineering works established in 1887, on site of former Langlands foundry in Grant Street South Melbourne. It was one of the largest manufacturers of elevators in Australia, and continued as the Otis Elevator Company. ==Origin== The company was initially formed in 1878 as Hughes, Pye & Rigby manufacturing mining plant, steam engines, elevators, wool & other hydraulic presses. It was incorporated as a public company in 1887 as The Austral Otis Engineering and Elevator Company Limited〔 〕 and in October 1893 changed its name to The Austral Otis Engineering Co Ltd. The company epitomised the boom era. It was founded with just £600 in capital, but by the end of the 1880s it employed 300 workers, producing pumping engines, mining machinery, hydraulic lifts and huge steam engines for the city's cable trams and first electric power stations.〔(eMelbourne School of Historical Studies Department of History, The University of Melbourne July 2008 )〕 Austral Otis tendered the Victorian Government to produce two steam traction engines after starting up in 1880 as a general engineering business, and in the late 1880s it set up a well equipped works for heavy engineering, which covered about four acres. It had important agencies for machinery including Worthington pumps and the Otis Bros & Co. elevators. The company undertook many major contracts, for mining and other machinery equipment and it was awarded prizes for its steam engines and hoisting equipment at the Centennial Exhibition in 1888, at Melbourne.;〔''The Australasian ironmonger, builder, engineer, and metal worker'': a strictly intercolonial journal May 1889〕〔(Australia Post History )〕 It also built steam rollers, but only two examples of these are known in the world.〔(''The Chrysler Collector'' No 150, January / February 2004 )〕 Herbert Robinson Brookes (1867–1963), came to Melbourne to improve the management of Austral Otis. He was highly successful and by 1912 was a director of the firm.〔(Patrick, Alison, 'Brookes, Herbert Robinson (1867–1963)', Australian Dictionary of Biography ), National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 18 September 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Austral Otis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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