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Description area
Dates of existence
History
Selbys Scientific Limited was incorporated on 1 July 1974 to take over the trading activities of H B Selby and Company Pty Ltd, Melbourne and H B Selby and Company Pty Ltd, Sydney which, although subsidiaries of H B Selby Australia Ltd had been allowed to operate as distinct entities. In 1983 the Board of Selbys Scientific was disbanded and Selbys became a division of the Australian National Industries (ANI) Corporation in 1983.
Places
Notting Hill, Victoria with offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and Port Moresby (PNG)
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
machinery and equipment manufacturing; mineral, metal and chemical wholesaling; machinery and equipment wholesaling
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
Subsidiaries: H B Selby and Company Proprietary Limited, Melbourne, 1903 - 1983; H B Selby and Company Proprietary Limited, Sydney, 1912 - 1983.
Joint Managing Directors: Selby, Esmond John (1911 - 1998) and Selby, Benn Atherton (1914 - 2011)
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Prepared by Margaret Avard in February 2014
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Sources
Dr Samuel Furphy (2005): Selbys the Science People: A History of H B Selby Australia Limited