SohoFoundry.com.au
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Soho Foundry
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- In 1972 Perc and Charlie Bilney opened the Soho Foundry at Sovereign Hill. Their dream was to metal spin and cast quality brass, copper and steel products from yersteryear for a growing tourist market. Unfortunately their brass casting operations were not to last. A a change in regulations forced the furnace to be shut down for the last time in the early 1980’s. They then concentrated all of their efforts into metal spinning. The machinery they aquired back then makes ‘Soho Foundry’ the only fully operational workshop of its type in Australia. After many years, Charlie left the workshop, and today Perc, Neville and Daryl Bilney continue to run and work the Soho. We don’t know of any other Australian business producing housewares of this type in Australia. All lathes, drill presses and other machinery are operated by an intricate belt and pully system, operating off a central shaft. All this is driven by an original “Watt” steam engine. (Made at the Soho Foundry in Burmingham, England) We believe that if we continue in this line of work that we will be amongst the few craftsmen keeping these skills alive. Skills that are fast disappearing as the world becomes overwhelmed with modern technology.
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