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    • 1927 - 1929
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  • 1927 - 1929

Milestones 1927 - 1929

1927

Allen Liversidge was registered on 1 April 1927 at 99 Park Road, Newtown with Harvey Shacklock appointed as the company’s first CEO.

The company was the result of merging of six independent gas companies:

  • Allen-Liversidge
  • HOPCO
  • The Oxygen Company
  • ; Usshers Oxygen
  • The Oxygen divisions of Lever Brothers and Herald Soap

Its first chairman was Dr. JH Dobson of Dowson & Dobson, a company Afrox was to acquire in 1969.

1928

  • The site of the present Durban branch and regional office, The Old Harbour Police Station, Maydon Wharf, Durban purchased for £1,100. This is the site of the present Durban branch and regional office. 

  • Allen-Liversidge, with plants in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, opens in Bulawayo (Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe) and Bwana Mkabwa (Northern Rhodesia - now Zambia), with oxy-acetylene as the core business, and Port Elizabeth.

  • The Manufacture of filling rods and fluxes started

  • The Newtown head office and works expanded with opening of an acetylene installation.

1929

The Durban branch provides oxygen to blast railway tunnels between Durban and Pietermaritzburg.


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