A number of brick companies used the name Excelsior. A Sydney firm with this name was operated by the Keen brothers from 1890 to 1920 from Lang St Ashfield.
Glew and Hills were the proprietors of the Excelsior Brick Company in Frankston advertising "white and common bricks always on hand moulded bricks of every description made to order" in 1891.
Wright and Wade were owners of an Excelsior Brickworks in Dandenong Road Oakleigh in 1889 according to the Ramekin who also records John McKell as having previously been the Manager of the South Yarra Brickworks, formerly the Excelsior brickworks in Chapel Street and another Excelsior brickworks in Braybrook.
The Chapel Street works appears to the most prolific and long lived. The Argus in 1924 noted that:
For 40 years the Excelsior Brick Company has been quarrying a piece of land in Chapel street, near the Church street bridge, and proposes to continue quarrying material for the manufacture of bricks to a depth consistent with economical working. The new Melbourne High School adjoins this property, and in the event of deep quarry being made the school would be cut off from Chapel street. The hoarding on the left of the photograph of the 'late marks the Chapel street boundary of the brickworks, and on the right may be seen the new High School in course of erection.
