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Photograph - Mayne Nickless Exhibit, The Melbourne International Centenary Exhibition, Royal Exhibition Buildings, 1980
Reg. No: MM 124503
- Summary:
- Black & white photograph of the Mayne Nickless exhibit at the Melbourne International Centenary Exhibition held at the Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, between 23 September and 5 October 1980.
Founded in 1886, Mayne Nickless continued through the twentieth century as one of Australia's largest multinational trucking companies, expanding into North American and European markets, before entering the health care sector in the 1980s. The company was plagued by regulatory investigations which revealed collusion practices in its trucking practices in the early 1990s. Deteriorating business performance and subsequent scandals in the company's health sector saw it sell a large portion of its hospital portfolio in 2003, before finally being broken up in 2005.
This is one of 959 photographs (or images) of the Exhibition Building collated by the Exhibition Trustees as a 10 volume pictorial history of the Exhibition Building spanning the years 1880 to 1985. The pictorial history was instigated by the centenary of the Exhibition Building in 1980 and forms part of a larger Royal Exhibition Building collection of documents, photographs, objects and research files. - Description:
- A black & white silver gelatin print on a page of a photograph album. There is a printed caption below the photograph.
- Description Of Content:
- Black & white photograph depicting part of the Mayne Nickless exhibit at the Melbourne International Centenary Exhibition held at the Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, between 23 September and 5 October 1980.
The subject of the image is an early example of a Mayne Nickless marked 1925 Morris tray truck, reflecting the company's origins as a giant multinational trucking company, before they entered health care in the 1980s.
| Discipline: | History |
| Dimensions: | 192 mm (Height), 245 mm (Width) |
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| Tagged with: | centenaries, royal exhibition building, transport packaging, royal exhibition building trustees, royal exhibition building centenary of opening, exhibitions melbourne international centenary exhibition 1980, exhibitions melbourne international centenary 1980 |
| Themes this item is part of: | Images & Image Making Collection, Public Life & Institutions Collection, Royal Exhibition Building Collection |
| Primary Classification: | ROYAL EXHIBITION BUILDING |
| Secondary Classification: | Commemorative Ceremonies |
| Tertiary Classification: | exhibition building centenary 1980 |
| Inscriptions: | EXHIBITION CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS/ THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL CENTENARY EXHIBITION/ Part of Mayne Nickless Exhibit - Great Hall. |
| Format: | Photograph: Black & White |
| Place & Date Depicted: | Royal Exhibition Building (REB), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1980 |
| Organisation Depicted: | Mayne Nickless Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1980 |
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