[2] MacDonald Park is a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Playford.

[3] Some of the current suburb and part of the land transferred to Andrews Farm was formerly the Smithfield magazine area, which had been closed before the expressway was built across it.

According to the city of playford, in the initial stages of World War II, the Commonwealth Government initiated a significant expansion effort to produce munitions, this included the establishment of four munitions facilities in and around Adelaide, that being a small arms factory at Hendon, a foundry and rolling mill at Finsbury, an explosive and filling factory at Salisbury, and a magazine area at Smithfield.

The Smithfield magazine was erected in early 1941 on a 530-hectare site, situated approximately 5 km north of the Salisbury Explosive and Filling Factory, its primary function was to serve as the storage facility for munitions produced at the Salisbury factory, housing materials such as Cordite, TNT, and Nitrocellulose, the site was positioned at the intersection of Curtis and Andrew’s roads, MacDonald Park.

[4] In the early 1960s, a section of the decommissioned Smithfield Magazine area, once part of the munitions factory constructed in the Penfield area during the early 1940s, (also known as the Salisbury explosives factory, now Edinburgh Park), the land was sold by the government to MacDonald Reid Pty Ltd who developed the sold section of land into MacDonald Park farmlets in 1964.