further commissions then came in a series of factories, shops and commercial buildings in melbourne and the inner suburbs, including brash's at 108 elizabeth street in the late 1920s, while two footscray factories for maize products in 1933 and bradmills in 1934 cemented his reputation in that suburb. bradmill's had previously been mcphersons jute works and barnett glass rubber, but under the ownership of bradford cotton mills the site was greatly extended with "factory block no. 1" extensively reconstructed, in 1926–1927 according to plottel's designs for a then massive £53,399.