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node105
14th May 2016, 12:11 AM
Hi,

picked this up a week ago, seems in good condition underneath the discolouration.

Can not find any references to the C.C. brand anywhere. Does anyone any info?


Image upload fails to produce thumbnails/images to include , so no pics

YBAF
14th May 2016, 09:08 PM
Have a look at the newspapers at Trove.

Home - Trove (http://trove.nla.gov.au)

node105
15th May 2016, 12:55 PM
thanks for the Trove link YBAF
Have now established C.C. Industries was a Sydney firm in at least the 50's and 60's, and possibly wound up in 1967.



Trove search yielded links to the below:


C.C. Engineering Industries Ltd. (1956)
new certificate of title to replace prior lost; Sydney


C.C. EWARTS (AUSTRALIA) PTY LIMITED (1967 wind up voluntarily) Sydney


C.C. STRAPPING MACHINES PTY LIMITED
(1967 wind up voluntarily) Sydney




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A web search led to a chainsaw users group:


Manufacturer:
C.C. ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES LTD.
Location:
GUILDFORD, N.S.W. AUSTRALIA
Brand(s):
Blue Streak
Comments:
Manufactured Chain Saws in Australia using parts supplied by Industrial Engineering Ltd. of Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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web also returned:


Sydney Morning Herald 4.12.1954, C.C. Engineering Industries Ltd reported a profit of 18,270 Pound for the year


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and a chainsaw enthusiasts group

(http://http://macbobaust.com/imported.html)
http://macbobaust.com/imported.html (http://http://macbobaust.com/imported.html)








web search also returned a link to Australian Made Chainsaws , a Blue Streak , made by C.C. Engineering and some photos, and the C.C. logo within a diamond shaped border, cast into the alloy body of chain saw.


Apparently 'made in Australia' labelling was open to abuse even back in the 60's:
<<Above a classic example of an Australian Chainsaw complete with sand cast fan housing and fuel tank carrying the intials of C.C Engineering who imported components for local assembly and painting.


MANUFACTURED BY: C.C. ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES LTD.
GUILDFORD, N.S.W. AUSTRALIA


This should read as assembled in Australia from imported components>>


A further bit of interesting reading from a contributor to the site:
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Australian Made Chainsaws ???


I have heard from a lot of chainsaw collectors that a lot of early Australian Chainsaws were built right here in Australia but i'm sure they are confused as to what "Made in Australia" meant on most of the ID tags applied to these chainsaws.


Australian made in a lot of cases was a clever bit of badge engineering by many importers who claimed Australian made when the chainsaw was in fact assembled from imported components and to avoid local tariff's assembled or even painted here and sometimes having a small amount of the needed components sourced locally or made by the importer themselves ie fuel tanks and some sand cast fan housings bearing their companies motiff or intials.


Above a classic example of an Australian Chainsaw complete with sand cast fan housing and fuel tank carrying the intials of C.C Engineering who imported components for local assembly and painting


Blue Streak Major MA, MB ML and Minor.


MANUFACTURED BY: C.C. ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES LTD.
GUILDFORD, N.S.W. AUSTRALIA


This should read as assembled in Australia from imported components
Danarm Chainsaws i'm sure were the same when it came to a locally assembled unit being manufactured in it's home country ( England ) then exported as parts then painted and assembled here.
Danarm Chainsaws in Australia


The Mobilco Chainsaw Range


Easily confused as an Australian Made chainsaw i have had many readers of my web site state that they believed they were Australian made


A Mobilco Be-Bo another fully imported chainsaw into Australia
Atom Chainsaws


Manufactured right here in Australia our only locally produced chainsaw pity local tariff rules didn't protect it better so it only survived 4 years approxiately 1972 - 1976 click here to see Our only Australian Made and Produced Chainsaw




And in this case a claim by Dynamic Chain Saw that this saw was manufactured exclusively for them by Partner and was the P6
Click here for more photos


The Blue streak ad lists
Britstand DistrIbutars of
621 Gardners Rd Mascot NSW.
MANUFACTURED BY: IEL (Industrial Engineering Ltd.)
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
Hi Bob,


I have been having a look at your website and it is great that someone is recording the various saws in Australian history.


I have a small collection of Blue Streak chain saws and am also trying to piece together their history. I believe that your statements that they were largely only assembled from imported parts is a bit harsh and I would in deed call them Australian made.


The following is an extract from an article of 1953, titled "A New Australian Industry is Born - The Story of the "Blue Streak" Chain Saw":


"Ellerkers became large-scale importers of Canadian saws in 1947, not long after arranging for local manufacture of the entire units, even including engines.


This called for engineering skill and facilities for research and development of the highest order. In this they were fortunate to arose the interest of CC Engineering Ltd., Sydney, which firm from the outset made a signal success of the Australian-built saw.


At first, manufacture was confined to an exact reproduction under licence of an overseas make of saw; but as time went by the Ellerker/CC alliance became convinced that the peculiarities of Australian timbers and operating conditions, needed-in fact, demanded-a range of saws expressly built to handle these factors.


After this decision, the midnight oil could very often be seen burning in the offices of the design experts at CC while a team of the most highly experienced professional loggers that could be found, tested time and again, each new idea. Thus, the true Australian saw was born.


The range which has been named "Blue Streak" is claimed to be the only line of power chain saws wholly made in Australia."
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A different website:
HAND TOOL PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA
www.htpaa.org.au (http://www.htpaa.org.au)


has no listing For C.C. probably not surprising if hand tools were not made by C.C.


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NSW State Records revealed an entry:
Primary Application - C C Engineering Industries Limited 11 acres 22 perches on Duck River, corner Everley Road & Ferndell Street Granville in Parish Liberty Plains County Cumberland Volume 6634 Folio 240


Date range:
12/09/1951 to 02/03/1953

node105
15th May 2016, 12:57 PM
image upload process still FAILS

YBAF
16th May 2016, 02:46 PM
Shame we carn't go back and edit old posts. Reading through the second post had me a bit mystified until it jelled there should have been some pictures in it.