Number 10

Address

10 Neild Ave, Rushcutters Bay, NSW, 2011

Enjoy a piece of local history, holding your event in a local Sydney landmark.

The site’s history can be traced back to just a few decades after Australia was settled. In 1810, a convict named Thomas West was given permission to set up a water mill on a rugged 40-acre estate east of Woolloomooloo. The West family stayed on the land until the late nineteenth century when it was subdivided into over 80 lots, many of which were leased on 99-year terms. The site was the ideal location for a rapidly growing tyre manufacturing company, who moved into space in 1923 and set about building up its factory. The company was Advanx Tyre and Rubber, founded in 1921 by a Canadian tyre salesman, Russell Taylor, and an Australian Olympic swimmer and businessman, Francis Beaurepaire. That last name might be familiar – Francis resigned from Advanx in 1923 to set up his own company in Melbourne and Beaurepaires is still one of Australia’s biggest tyre companies.

Change never stopped on the Rushcutters Bay site, as Advanx built its reputation as one of Sydney’s most important industrial producers at the time. Staff numbers grew and the company branched out from creating rubber to conducting same-day tyre servicing. But it was the contribution to the war that brought sharp growth, thanks to defence contracts that requested tyres, boots, gas masks and helmet linings, among others. If Advanx’s history as a Sydney icon was in doubt, its post-war business supplying all rubber parts for Holden cars solidified that status.

After nearly 80 years on the site, Advanx’s doors closed in October 1999.

In 2006, the entire area was redeveloped, the 10,905sqm site that’s in place today, with 154 apartments, 14 terraces and 3275sqm of commercial space, with Number 10 right in the heart of it all.

Come and create your own historic moment, in our beautiful event space, right in the heart of Sydney.