Formed in 1927 in North Melbourne by John W. Derham as the Australian Mouding Corporation, the company merged in 1932 with Moulded Products, a gramophone record manufacturer.

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List (Sydney), 1st October 1927 p.5 Derham was manager of this firm by 1930, if not earlier.

The Herald (Melbourne), 14th July 1932 p.4
Decca Records were produced by Moulded Products (Australasian) Pty. Ltd.

News (Adelaide), 5th April 1951 p.8

They were responsible for Saxon, Harlequin, and Duperite ware. Dunlop Perdiau gained a controlling interest in this firm between the years of 1934-6. They became the largest producer of moulded plastic products in Australia.

The Australian Women’s Weekly, 21st December 1935 p.18
Harlequin would be superseded by Harlequin branding.

Many of their product lines can be seen in the advertisement below. A new factory was built in Mentone in 1944 that operated until 2006. In 1966 the company was renamed Nylex Pty. Ltd.

The Australian Women’s Weekly, 27th May 1953 page 41.

For more on this company through its various incarnations, see the individual pages for Saxon Ware, Harlequin, Duperite and Nylex.

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