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George Edward Fulton (ca.August 1855 – 1 July 1895) was an engineer who ran an iron and steel foundry in the early days of South Australia. ==History== George was born the second son of David Fulton, of Craiglee House, Dennistown, Glasgow, and proprietor of the Duke Street calico printing works in that city. He was educated in Glasgow and, persuaded by the Hon. J. G. Ramsay that there was a future for him in South Australia, migrated and arrived in Adelaide in 1878.〔"Cumming, D.A. and Moxham, G. ''They Built South Australia'' published by the authors, February 1986 ISBN 0 9589111 0 X〕 He secured a position as a patternmaker at the locomotive workshops on North Terrace under L. Grayson, but, anxious to launch out for himself, he soon resigned, set up an office in Peel Street, and won a City Corporation contract for enclosing the City squares with iron railings. Not long after this, Arthur Robert Lungley (ca.1848 – 11 May 1935), a government hydraulic engineer, joined with him to form G. E. Fulton & Co. They established "Fulton's Foundry" at Goodwood in 1879,〔 initially to supply cast iron fencing for the Adelaide squares, then for other fancy architectural goods: fretwork, columns, ornamental capitals and so forth. Aided by a substantial subsidy, he won a State Government contract for £180,000 worth of cast-iron water and drainage pipes in 1884, enabling him to set up a factory in Kilkenny, for which purpose he travelled to Great Britain, ordering heavy machinery and engaging fifteen specialist workers. With characteristic energy, Fulton soon had production under way, to the discomfort of nearby residents. With A. R. Lungley he took out patents for a hinged cover in May 1885, for a method of disconnecting water mains in December 1888 and for a method of supplying fuel to smelting furnaces in September 1889.〔 S. R. Wilson, a mining engineer with substantial experience of Broken Hill joined the company. This was at the time of the great silver boom, and the practical knowledge which Mr. Wilson brought to bear led to the firm entering extensively into the manufacture of mining plant of every description. The Broken Hill mines were good customers of the company, Broken Hill Proprietary in particular purchasing substantial machinery from them.〔 Supplied furnaces to BHP's Block 14 and the British companies in Broken Hill, and pumping equipment for the Junction Smelting Works and two 300 horsepower steam engines for BHP. In 1901 his factory covered 5 acres and employed 350 men.〔 The reputation of the firm spread, and orders for mining machinery came from Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland, for which latter State the firm supplied much of the machinery used on cattle stations. When the West Australian mines started attracting attention, S. R. Wilson left the company to take charge of his brother W. R. Wilson's interests in the Murchison, Coolgardie, and Mount Margaret districts.〔 Another development was provision of a new kind of steel pipe for the reticulation of the Beetaloo area, a work which was most successfully performed. The importance of the West Australian goldfields soon became apparent to Mr. Fulton, and he was one of the first engineers to pay a visit to the West to inspect the goldfields and ascertain what machinery would be required there. Towards the end of 1894 he made a flying visit to both Coolgardie and the Murchison, securing a contract for the erection of a public battery at Cue. While Fulton was at Cue, supervising the installation of the battery, Fulton died, apparently of a heart attack. His body was repatriated to Adelaide and received a public burial, which attracted a large attendance. The company was liquidated in 1902, and purchased by Walter Weech Forward (of Forward Down and Co.), W. D. Watkins and A. C. Harley. The northern Kilkenny site was later owned by David Shearer and Co. The southern site (between Port Road and the railway line) became Australian Glass Manufacturing company's bottle manufacturing plant. 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「George Edward Fulton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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