Industry was the driving force of development in the surrounding area for a few decades. The factory opened in 1956, I don't have an exact date, even though I like to know these things. After re-purposing the property into an industrial park, and constructing some buildings, Phileo Australia on-sold it to Cbus for $136.5 million ten years later. Usually you would have a selling dealer sticker but my car was produced for a member of staff at the Dandenong plant and they are the … ... General Motors Holden, Princes Hwy, Dandenong South, 1970s.
In the beginning — and for that we must go back to 1835, the year Melbourne was born — the district embraced everything from Oakleigh to the sea, and to the mountains.The rest is now the shire of Spring Vale and Noble Park, created in 1955.
The station was in thick timber, and Mrs. Scott hired timber cutters and sawyers to fell trees and cut them into building slabs, sleepers, palings and paving blocks.THE first white man to pass over the creek, herding cattle, was probably John Highett who continued on to "sit down" and founded the suburb that bears his name.Within a chain distance of a bank that cost £250,000 to build, cows were milked only 30 years ago. In 1997 GMH sold the Dandenong plant site on Princes Highway to Phileo Australia for $22.5 million.
Tony Liberatore stopped working at Holden in 1988 when the Dandenong Vehicle Assembly Plant closed. Earlier, in 1920, Carrum was cut from the shire of Dandenong to become the borough of Carrum, now a city.But that takes nothing of glamour from the town that has been known for many years as the gateway to Gippsland. A thriving General Motors Holden in the mid 1970s. GMH Siding, Dandenong, 1960 The old GMH (General Motors Holden) plant in Dandenong South/Doveton had it's own siding in the earlier years.
Both are pleasant memories of the town that grew from them into Victoria's premier market town and manufacturing centre.A roadside inn named "No Good Damper" stood near Oakleigh for some years from the early 1840's. The loudest lament of the hostess was that she could not keep the kangaroos from her patch of pumpkins and cucumbers. It is located between Dandenong and Hallam stations, in the suburb of Dandenong South. It was previously served by Pakenham line commuter rail services, as part of the suburban rail system. The figures for 1957-58 were 97,187 head of cattle, 106,376 calves and 68.037 pigs.With the industries come new homes for the technicians and the work force, and for the shopping centres that feed and clothe them; new means of education and recreation, more amenities of living, health and pleasure, new character to a place grown almost overnight from a small market and stopover village at a creek - crossing, to a bustling, eagerly expansive city.There is a legend that an aborigine finding a bag of lime, and, cooking it, disgustedly declared the concrete "No good damper."As a city it will embrace 14 square miles. Group named on photograph.
The Elizabeth plant came online in 1965 (the Birkenhead plant closed at this time) and was used to manufacture seats, interiors and body frames for Isuzu trucks, as well as vehicle assembly.