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PLUMBING CONNECTION
SPRING 2016
90 YEARS YOUNG
F
or a family business to have survived the last
90 years in the ever-changing and challenging Aussie
market speaks volumes, and that’s exactly what
Everhard has done.
On 20 September 1926, Alfred T Davis and his business
partner established Queensland’s first laundry tub
manufacturing business, located in Bulimba on the
southern bank of the Brisbane River. These continued to be
manufactured for the next 60 years with more than 300,000
2016 MARKS THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF EVERHARD PRODUCING QUALITY PRODUCTS FOR THE WATER AND
WASTEWATER INDUSTRIES.
The Glo-Tub was the first laundry unit available in colour and
created a new focus on the forgotten room of the house.
CELEBRATING A MILESTONE
produced during that time. Many of these pre-cast concrete
laundry tubs – some up to 180kg in weight - can still be
found in homes today.
The business partnership dissolved a few years later
but Alf continued to run the business, adopting the “Ever-
Hard” name and relocating to Breakfast Creek. In 1932 Alf’s
brother Frederick Davis joined him in the management of the
business and, upon the premature death of Alf in 1936; Fred
Davis became the sole owner and manager of the Ever-Hard
Concrete Products Coy.
EXPANSION
The 1950s and 60s saw further expansion of
Everhard, including new product developments, product
improvements, the acquisition of similar businesses and the
purchase of land for new production sites and distribution
centres. In 1965 Everhard introduced pre-cast concrete
septic tanks to the product range with Queensland’s first
“direct-to-hole” delivery of the concrete tanks using a 1942
ex-army Blitz truck. This coincided with the purchase of 5
acres at Newman Road, Geebung and the manufacture of
the concrete septic tanks was moved to that location in
1967.