Why ours last

Seventy-seven years of not cutting corners.

The best trampoline is the one that lasts the longest — and the best evidence is a maker that has. This is the long answer: the machines, the materials and the habits behind a trampoline built to be handed down.

“My parents trampoline was purchased from Mr Trampoline 50 years ago and is still going strong. Mine is 35 years old and my daughter has just got one for my grandchildren…”

Gillian Scaduto — three trampolines, four generations.
The lineage

From NACA Langley to your lawn

1947

A NACA engineer's idea

Lionel Duffin encounters the trampoline while working at NACA Langley — the U.S. aeronautics agency that became NASA — and brings the idea home to Melbourne.

1949

Steelfast builds Australia's first

Duffin’s Steelfast Engineering builds Australia’s first trampoline — and a weaving loom improvised from a Malvern Star bicycle frame, a Westinghouse washing-machine drum and a go-kart clutch. Roughly seventy years of service later, that loom still weaves in our factory.

1953

The Carnegie factory

Production moves to Dandenong Road, Carnegie — where every Mr Trampoline is still made by hand today.

2007

Steelfast + Mr Trampoline

The two names in Australian trampoline making join under one roof, combining Steelfast’s manufacturing with the Mr Trampoline name.

2012

BOUNCEinc opens on our beds

Australia’s first trampoline park opens jumping on Carnegie-made mats — and an industry follows.

Today

R&D never stops

An automated-loom research project with RMIT, exports to Denmark — including a 35-metre fast-track bed — and the same promise as 1949: every part replaceable, forever.

The materials

What your hands would find

High Tenacity yarn

Twisted in-house and hand-strung on our looms. No stitching.

The weave up close

Every mat is woven and inspected by hand in Carnegie.

Australian Steel

Used throughout our frames to ensure they last generations.

Extended hook trampoline springs

11-inch springs

Huge high-tensile galvanised springs — up to 114 of them — give the repeated deep, soft bounce a short spring never can for decades.

Replacement hanger clip

Stainless hanger clips

The clips that hold your bed are stainless steel and re-used forever — when a bed retires, the same clips string the next one.

Repair, don't replace

Re-coat your bed once every three years  — re-tie broken strings and your bed will last a generation.

Parts, forever

Everything on your trampoline can be renewed

In-ground Mr Trampoline beneath an olive tree at Red Hill
In-ground Mr Trampoline in a Malvern garden
Aerial view of an in-ground Mr Trampoline in a garden
From the venues

“The success of the Buller Air Zone is testament to the drive, determination, commitment of the MrTrampoline team.”

Mark Bennetts, CEO — Buller Airzone, Mt Buller
Google Reviews

What our customers say

4.9 out of 5 from 62 reviews on Google

The proof is in the paddock

Come and see them made.

Drop into the factory at 966 Dandenong Road, Carnegie, and watch a bed being strung by hand