The company purchased the 95 acre Isaac Shepherd "Helenie" estate on the Parramatta River adjacent to Meadowbank station.

The firm later produced tramcars and railway rolling stock, assembled Ford Model Ts, and manufactured a range of stationary engines.

The Commonwealth Government purchased both horizontal and vertical engines for use on the Trans-Australian Railway for pumping water into overhead tanks for the steam locomotives.

[5] Land at Meadowbank adjacent to the Main North line was cleared, a railway siding built and a tram road made to the wharf.

Ryde Council acquired the land for a planned sandstone quarry but the State Government took it over and built Meadowbank TAFE, and the balance wassubdivided for housing.