Foundries - New Zealand - Otago Region
G Methven & Company Ltd :Methven's specialties. Dunedin, 1st May, 1915.
Date: 1915
From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to plumbers, plumbing supplies, drainage, plumbing companies]
By: G Methven & Company
Reference: Eph-B-PLUMBING-1915-01
Description: Includes portraits of the staff of G Methven and Company in Dunedin. Illustrated products include: high and low pressure bib cocks, water stop cocks, angle main cocks, plugs, washers and overflows, basins, showers, shower curtains, toilet flushing valves, and cistern pulls, sewage pipes, valves, garden hose fittings, beer and spirit cocks, blowlamps, gas fittings, motor fittings for petrol benzine kerosene and acetylene gas, copper boilers, iron grates, manhole covers, stock brand or searer, lathes, baths, bacon slicers, rabbit exterminator (pump filled with bisulphide of carbon), fire escape. Also shows photographs of the interior of the brass moulding department, brass finishing department, brass polishing department, engineering and designing department, the iron foundry, the packing store, the pressroom and general coppersmithing department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 50 pages, each 250 x 185 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2005.
Interior view of the foundry at Hillside Railway Workshops, Dunedin.
Date: 1927
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0938-1/2-G
Description: Interior view of the foundry at the Hillside Railway Workshops, Dunedin. A group of foundry workers are facing the camera, including a man wearing a suit and hat, identified as the foreman, Mr S H Wellington. This foundry is now superseded. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1926. Information about the foreman from W.P. Wellington (AT 13/12/4 11.12.96) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Interior view of the foundry at Hillside Railway Workshops, Dunedin.
Date: 1927
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0939-1/2-G
Description: Interior view of the foundry at the Hillside Railway Workshops, Dunedin. A group of foundry workers are facing the camera, including a man wearing a suit and hat, identified as the foreman, Mr Sam H Wellington. This foundry is now superseded. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1926. Information about the foreman from W.P. Wellington (AT 13/12/4 11.12.96) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches