Down The ‘Olive
A memory of Colgate-Palmolive in Balmain, New South Wales

Written and edited by Else Lackey and Monica Vardabasso, 1994.

The Balmain plant is where it all started for Colgate-Palmolive in Australia. In 1923 when the first soap boiling took place, Balmain was a suburb known for its industry, its shipyards and it coal mine.

This small book is not a definitive history of Colgate-Palmolive or the Sydney suburb of Balmain. It is a book of memories of some of the people who worked at Colgate-Palmolive’s first Australian factory. It reflects an important part of Australian history gone forever.

Soft cover, A4 format (landscape), 35 pages, 1994.

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