Jaques Limited on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Jaques Limited was an engineering manufacturing company based in 
Jaques Limited was an engineering manufacturing company based in Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropol ...
, which was founded by Edward Jaques in 1888.
Jaques' family had fled Revolutionary France and eventually immigrated to Australia in 1876. In 1885 Edward finished his engineering apprenticeship in Melbourne prior to forming a company with Edwin Phillips as Phillips and Jaques, producing rock crusher
A crusher is a machine designed to reduce large rocks into smaller rocks, gravel, sand or rock dust.
Crushers may be used to reduce the size, or change the form, of waste materials so they can be more easily disposed of or recycled, or to reduce ...
s for quarries. The partnership was dissolved in 1888 and Edward went into partnership with his brother Wallace in 1917 as Jaques Brothers Proprietary Limited. Jaques Brothers became a public company in 1949, and on 22 March 1973 it changed its name to Jaques Limited. It was taken over by Clyde Industries Ltd on 19 September 1979.
The firm became a world leader in the design and manufacture of stone crushers as well as producing road making machinery and excavators.
In 1979 Jaques produced the tunnel boring machine
A tunnel boring machine (TBM), also known as a "mole", is a machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of soil and rock strata. They may also be used for microtunneling. They can be designed to bore throu ...
known as the mole, used in construction of the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop
The City Loop (originally called the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop or MURL) is a mostly- underground and partly surface-level subway and rail system in the central business district (CBD) of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The Loop includes ...
under the supervision of managing director Jack Keegan, from design drawings acquired from Italy.
In 2001, Jaques was absorbed by the Terex
Terex Corporation is an American worldwide manufacturer of lifting and material-handling plant for a variety of industries including construction, infrastructure, quarrying, recycling, energy, mining, shipping, transportation, refining and ut ...
Corporation.
The main manufacturing plant in Palmer Street Richmond was sold in 1997, and the site redeveloped as a residential and commercial area under the name as Jaques Richmond.
References
Manufacturing companies based in Melbourne Defunct manufacturing companies of Australia Manufacturing companies established in 1888 Manufacturing plants in Melbourne Manufacturing companies disestablished in 2001 1888 establishments in Australia Australian companies disestablished in 2001 2001 mergers and acquisitions {{Australia-company-stub