George was born the second son of David Fulton, of Craiglee House, Dennistown, Glasgow, and proprietor of the Duke Street calico printing works in that city.
[3] He secured a position as a patternmaker at the locomotive workshops on Adelaide's North Terrace under L. Grayson,[4] but, anxious to launch out for himself, he soon resigned and set up an office in Peel Street.
They established "Fulton's Foundry" at Goodwood in 1879,[3] initially to supply cast iron fencing for the Adelaide town square, then for other fancy architectural goods as well, such as fretwork, columns, ornamental capitals and so forth.
], he won a state government contract for £180,000 worth of cast-iron water and drainage pipes in 1884, enabling him to set up a factory in Kilkenny, for which purpose he travelled to Great Britain, ordering heavy machinery and engaging fifteen specialist workers.
[2] The firm also provided of a new kind of steel pipe for the reticulation of the Beetaloo area, a work which was most successfully performed.
Towards the end of 1894 he made a flying visit to both Coolgardie and the Murchison, securing a contract to erect of a public battery at Cue.