Summary

Established by Harold Ling and Lance Hill from their backyard business of making and selling rotary clothes hoists.

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Timeline

  Harrold Brothers
       ? - 1911 Colton and Longbottom
       ? - 1911 Palmer, Preston & Company
              Colton, Palmer & Preston Limited
              Koch & Warne Limited
              Jury & Spiers
             ? - 1957 Southern Plastics
                   1948 - 1958 Hills Hoists Limited
                         1958 - Hills Industries Limited

Published resources

Books

• Harris, David, What a Line! The story of the people who made the hoist an Australian icon. Fifty Years of Hills., Hills Printing Services (a Division of Hills Industries Limited), Melrose Park, South Australia, 1996, 206 pp. Details