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The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (1885 - 2000)

From
1885
Victoria
To
2000

Summary

Incorporated in Victoria in 1885. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd developed and mined silver, lead and zinc deposits at Broken Hill in western New South Wales. In 2000 the company name was changed to BHP Limited.

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 1883 - 1885 Broken Hill Mining Company
       1885 - 2000 The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited
             2000 - BHP Limited
                   2000 - One Steel Limited
                   2001 - 2017 BHP Billiton Limited
                          BHP
                         2002 - 2003 BHP Steel Limited
                               2003 - BlueScope Steel Limited

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Archival resources

BHP Group Limited

  • The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited records, 1885; BHP Group Limited. Details

Published resources

Books

  • The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd., Souvenir of Opening Newcastle Steelworks, Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, 1915, 55 pp. Details
  • Fifty years of industry and enterprise 1885-1935, Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, 1935, 168 pp. Details
  • Progress 1885-1935, Newcastle, NSW, 1935, 46 pp. Details
  • 75 years' development in industry, Melbourne, Victoria, 1960, 192 pp. Details
  • 'Great Strides'. The story of fifty years of progress at B.H.P. Steelworks, Newcastle, NSW, The Brocken Hill Proprietary Company Limited, Melbourne, Victoria, 1965. Details
  • Australia National Companies and Securities Commission, Report on the cross investments between the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited and Elders IXL Limited, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1986. Details
  • Baker, D., The development of the iron and steel industry in Australia, New York, 1922. Details
  • Blainey, Geoffrey, The rise of Broken Hill, Macmillan and Co, Melbourne, Victoria, 1968. Details
  • Bridges, R., From silver to steel: the romance of the Broken Hill Proprietary, George Robertson, Melbourne, Victoria, 1920, 310 pp. Details
  • Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd, The B.H.P. review: jubilee number June 1935: fifty years of industry and enterprise 1885 to 1935, Melbourne, Victoria, 1935. Details
  • Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd, B.H.P. 75 years, Melbourne, Victoria, 1960. Details
  • Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd, How it all began: BHP in its 100th year, Melbourne, Victoria, 1985, 56 pp. Details
  • Curbs, L.S. (comp), The history of Broken Hill: its rise and progress, Adelaide, 1908, 200 pp. Details
  • Farwell, G., Down Argent Street: the story of Broken Hill, Sydney, 1948, 123 pp. Details
  • Jay, Christopher, A Future More Prosperous. The history of Newcastle Steelworks, 1912-1999, The Brocken Hill Proprietary Company Limited, Newcastles, 1999, 280 pp. Details
  • Mainwaring, Ross, Modernising underground coal haulage: BHP Newcastle Colleries' electric railways, Light Railway Research Society, Surrey Hills, Victora, 1999, 60 pp. Details
  • Mangold, Michael, Down the wire: BHP Wire Products, the closure of the Sydney wiremill (1994-1998), Mangold Sengers, Northbridge, New South Wales, 1998, 48 pp. Details
  • Mawson, Pacquita, A vision of steel: the life of G.D. Delprat, C.B.E., General Manager of BHP, 1898-1921, F.W. Cheshire, Melbourne, Victoria, 1958, 269 pp. Details
  • Richards, P.N., Lysaght Enterprise : the company, processes, products and people, Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited, Port Kembla, New South Wales, 1992, 339 pp. Details
  • Riley, Denis M., The iron ships: a maritime history of B.H.P., 1885-1992, BHP Transport, Melbourne, Victoria, 1992, 252 pp. Details
  • Sawyer, Derek, Australians in company: BHP in its 100th year, Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, 1985, 216 pp. Details
  • Stace, D., From production push to market pull: BHP Steel goes international: case study, Centre for Corporate Change, Australian Graduate School of Management, University of NSW, Sydney, 1996. Details
  • Trengove, A., What's good for Australia! : The story of BHP, Cassell, Stanmore, New South Wales, 1975, 263 pp. Details
  • Wills, N.R., Economic development of the Australian iron and steel industry, Melbourne, Victoria, 1948, 198 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • 'Australian Industries, no 1: Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd', Industrial and Mining Review, July 1952, 1952, pp. 16-19. Details
  • Abbott, M.J., 'The closure of a steelworks and the limits to workplace reform: The case of BHP's Newcastle works in Australia', Industry and Innovation, vol. 4, no. 2, 1997, pp. 259-275. Details
  • Donaldson, M., 'The state the Steel Industry and BHP', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, vol. 18, no. 3, 1982, pp. 339-363.. Details
  • Kerr, Ruth, 'John Moffat - the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd, and establishment of the Chillagoe Smelters, Queensland', Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol. 2, 2004, pp. 54-74. Details
  • O'Neil, Bill, 'The BHP Lock-out of 1909: The View from Three Generations of Broken Hill Miners', Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol. 10, 2012, pp. 129-139. Details
  • Parbo, Sir Arvi, 'BHP, a century of achievement', Corporate Management, vol. 43, no. 3, 1991, pp. 60-63. Details
  • Pearce, H.L., 'The development of the southern collieries of he Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, vol. 40, June, 1968, pp. 109-116. Details
  • Sheridan, T., 'Aspects of Decision Making in a monopoly: BHP and the 1945 steel strike', Australian Economic History Review, vol. 22, no. 1, 1982, pp. 1-27. Details

See also

  • Blainey, Geoffrey, The steel master: a life of Essington Lewis, Macmillan and Co, Melbourne, Victoria, 1971. Details

Bruce A. Smith

Created: 1 December 1999, Last modified: 6 April 2010