Summary

Building sign from the 'Fit Pit' in the Kodak Australasia factory at Coburg.

The Fit Pit was a fitness centre for Kodak staff where they could get health checks and undertake exercise programs. It opened in 1985 and was located in Building 6.

Part of the Kodak collection of products, promotional materials, photographs and working life artefacts collected from Kodak Australasia in 2005, when the Melbourne manufacturing plant at Coburg closed down.

Kodak manufactured and distributed a wide range of photographic products to Australasia, such as film, paper, chemicals, cameras and miscellaneous equipment. Its client base included amateur and professional photographers, as well as specialist medical and graphic art professionals who used photography, x-ray and other imaging techniques.

Physical Description

Aluminium metal sign, powder coated blue, with raised white inscription and diagram of person walking down stairs and an arrow. Has two aluminium brackets, each with two holes for attaching to a wall.

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