Design and Art Australia Online

An exhibition of Australian designed and manufactured goods held in Melbourne in 1947 and 1948. The exhibition included the Beaufort House, a prefabricated steel house manufactured by the Govt Aircraft Factory, electrical goods, engines, chemicals, new kitchen designs, aircraft engines and other post-war advances. Ferguson was the organiser and the initiator of the concept has not been determined. The exhibition illustrated the design and manufacturing advances made in Australia under the pressures of the 1939-45 War.