wormalds bros manufacturers of fire protection equipment were getting rich at his expense and he dissolved his partnership with them. he was looking for a place to manufacture his apparatus. he was friends with a catholic priest father archibald shaw msc. he and his superior, father guis, built a factory for kirkby on their land at the procure where kirkby began manufacturing his fire systems of fire protection. the procure was always short of money and shaw asked kirkby to make wireless for him. he did and they became very successful forming a company the maritime wireless company of australasia.