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English: Pirelli Power Cables is now known as Prysmian, and is still located on the heritage-listed site in Moorebank, New South Wales. The administration building has been heritage listed.

History

Cable Markers Australia commenced its operations in 1941 when World War II saw Australia's traditional overseas sources of supply of electrical cable virtually eliminated. In those years the Company's energies were almost entirely devoted to helping Australia's war effort in supplying the defence industries and fighting forces with various forms of cable to be utilised in ships, tanks and various other articles of fighting machinery.

The company continued operations post-1945 and by 1958 one observer recorded that the Cable Makers Australia operation at Liverpool, was "the most up to date of its kind in the world".

Physical description of administration building

The MM Cables Administration Building is located east of Liverpool Railway Station, on the eastern banks of the George's River. Access to the plant is gained by heading east of Liverpool city centre on the Newbridge Road. On crossing the George's river a slip road (part of Heathcote Road) branches off immediately to the left (north) and leads directly to the factory.

This administration building is a symmetrical, two-storey rectangular face brick building with a hipped terracotta tiled roof. The building has a single-storey parapetted wings on either side. The central recessed entrance porch is sheltered by a horizontal projecting hood, and the roof is punctuated by four brick chimneys near the ridgeline.

A number of the internal walls have rounded corners. Simple curved, streamline decoration is a feature of the central stairhall ceiling. This space also has a simplified Art Deco style plaster cornice. The staircase has a timber and wrought iron balustrade. The joinery is polished throughout, with etched glass panels to several doors. Principal doors have polished brass hardware.