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Assembled workmen at PN Russell & Co c1870-75

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State Library of New South Wales
[a089504 / SPF/504]
(Mitchell Library)

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Russell, Peter Nicol
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Heavy engineering Industrial building Men
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PN Russell & Co

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Russell, Peter Nicol

Engineer and businessman Peter Nicol Russell was a force in manufacturing, importing and sales of all kinds of metal work and engineering supplies, providing components for many large projects in nineteenth-century Sydney. Although he retired to Britain, he endowed the School of Engineering at the University of Sydney, to help it produce a new generation of engineers.

Heavy engineering

Industrial building

Men

PN Russell & Co

Engineering company created in 1855 by Peter Nicol Russell in partnership with his brothers John and George. It was wound up in 1875 after industrial unrest and financial difficulties.

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