38:(1858â1937) were ironworkers, founders of the Victorian firm of Metters Bros., oven and stove manufacturers. Sometime before 1880, Frederick left for South Australia, where he was associated with the Norwood Baptist Church and there patented his "top fire" stove design in 1891 and founded his own business which eventually became
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