A list of manufacturing companies founded in South Australia, many now forgotten but "household names" in their day. It does not include local affiliates of multinational companies, such as General Motors Holden, Kelvinator and Philips Electrical Industries. Nor does it (yet) include food and beverage companies such as AMSCOL, Chapmans, Coopers, Glen Ewin and Haighs or pharmaceuticals and toiletries such as Bickfords, Cromptons and Fauldings.
| Business Name | Founded | Ceased | Founder/s | Factory address | SA-manufactured products | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actil | 1941 | cotton fabric bed sheets | for Australian Cotton Textile Industries Ltd. | ||||
| Bagshaw Ltd. | farm machinery, inc. Ridley's "stripper" | ||||||
| Castalloy | 1948 | aluminium alloy castings[1] pressure cookers alloy wheels | |||||
| 1920 | electrical conduit fittings mains plugs and sockets switchgear | ||||||
| Coldstream | 1926[2] | refrigerators | |||||
| Dobbie Dico | 1862 | brass castings water meters | |||||
| Entech Group | 1986 | 7 Marlow Road, Keswick | PCB's, membrane keypads, electronic products | ||||
| Griffin Press | 1858 | contract printers | subsidiary of Advertiser Ltd. | ||||
| 1948 | Hills hoists TV antennae | ||||||
| farm machinery | |||||||
| Humes | concrete pipes | ||||||
| farm machinery railway engines | |||||||
| K.B.C. | c. 1947? | die-cast parts for auto makers hand-operated clothes wringer pistol drills (240VAC and 32VDC models)[3] domestic food mixers | for Kenneth Bowes Co. | ||||
| washing machines hydraulic jacks concrete mixers Zeta cars | |||||||
(John) Frederick May | mining machinery farm machinery | ||||||
| Metters | 1895? | windpumps wood stoves gas stoves bakers' ovens | |||||
| Minelab | metal detectors | ||||||
| 1899 | 1969 | railway engines | |||||
| Pope Products | 1935 | garden sprinklers washing machines electric motors | |||||
| 1910 | now Churchill Road, Kilburn | boots and shoes | for Rossiters Ltd. | ||||
| 1892[4] | brooms and brushes | for South Australian Brush Co. | |||||
| Scott Bonnar & Co | 1920 | Malcolm Cornelius Bonnar | brass castings electric lawnmowers hand mowers | ||||
| 1853 | (later) Simpson Ave., Dudley Park | tinware wood stoves gas stoves fireproof safes washing machines | |||||
| Sola Optical | spectacle lenses | ||||||
| Solver Paints | 1931 | house paints | |||||
| .22 rifles[5] | for Sporting Arms Ltd. | ||||||
| 1942 | books, esp. academic and SA history | ||||||
| Wallis Refrigeration | 1935 | kerosine refrigerators electric refrigerators | |||||
| Mistral Appliances | 1968 | airfryerskitchen appliancescooling systems | |||||
| Gerard Lighting[6] | Simon Gerard | lighting appliances |