[2] In 1923 Bond's company established a cotton-spinning mill at Wentworthville in western Sydney, with imported machinery costing 150 thousand pounds.

[4] This particular section of Wentworthville was soon renamed Pendle Hill in honour of his Scottish family origins.

To facilitate easy access to Bond's Spinning Mills for employees, a railway station and eventually a whole new suburb were created.

[2] In 2006, Bonds manufactured 40% of its goods in Australia at three sites in New South Wales: Cessnock, Unanderra and Wentworthville.

[5] After public outrage and media coverage of the sacked staff, a group of former employees banded together to form Tuffys & Tuffetts underwear, buying much of Bonds' old equipment and rehiring sacked staff.