Denyers' History
264 Swanston Street, around turn of century
Pages from Denyer Pay Book December 1911
An ingenious combination wheelchair from 1940s
Denyers was established in 1889 as a reseller and manufacturer of veterinary products.
Around the turn of the century the company started manufacturing and selling prostheses and other surgical / rehab products. Over the next couple of decades the emphasis moved progressively more towards surgical products, and in 1918 Denyers manufactured its first surgical operating table.
In the mid 1950s the manufacture of wheelchairs commenced and by now Denyers was manufacturing surgical tables and accessories for all Australia’s major hospitals.
1981 saw the release of the new Denyer XRT series operating tables with patented head-into-leg system which gave an unprecedented 1,400 mm uninterrupted C-arm access, and in fact many modern operating tables still struggle to reach this level of access. It is high credit to the product line that the XRT3000 is still a table of choice in some major hospitals, basically the same product released in 1981.
For several years Denyers very successfully marketed the Cmax and Universis tables from a third party and then released its own electro-hydraulic XRT4000 in 2007 and then in 2008 followed this with the state-of-the-art slide-top XRT5000. Both these operating tables are "ground-up" designs incorporating a number of unique and patented features to fulfil the requirements of today's varied and challenging surgical requirements. They are Australian designed and assembled in Denyers' Moorabbin factory.
Over the years Denyers have developed a number of innovative surgical accessories to compliment the standard / conventional accessories normally provided as part of a surgical table package.
In 1989 the innovative Vector series wheelchair was designed and remains product of choice where sturdy reliability is paramount. The lightweight Aero series was introduced in 1999 and the XL bariatric series followed a little later.
Denyers International is a 100% Australian owned and operated company located at 44-46 Nelson Street in Melbourne's industrial heartland of Moorabbin.
Pages from "Senior Model" product catalogue, 1920s
