Gas appliances

Date: 1904

By: Buick & Young (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-MACHINERY-1904-01

Description: Shows portraits of the proprietors E R B Holben and W Kirk. Includes descriptions and illustrations of engines, boilers, cream vats, pulleys, pumps, milk cans, hoses, babcock testers, the "Neulyte" incandescent gas installation, electrical goods, cream coolers, butter printer and pounder, curd mills, rotary milk pumps, corn grinder, siphon well, turbine water-wheel, butter churns, the "Baltic" separator, "Melotte" separator, Reid's hand separator, woodworking tools, horticultural tools, "Aquarius" spray pump, side-delivery rake, Manitoba hay stacker, Thomas hay tedder, Noxon mowers and disc harrows, hoes, bone cutters, potato digger, grain grinder, pulper and slicer, Daniels Canadian incubator, O.K. washing machine, hay rake, steamship machinery, Wagner's testing glassware. Quantity: 1 sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Catalogue of 100 pages, 217 x 282 mm.

Date: 1893

By: William Sugg & Company; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSEHOLD-1893-01

Description: Lavishly illustrated with models of gas appliances, with specifications and dimensions. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 16 pages, 284 x 220 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1997.

Date: 1926

From: [Ephemera relating to plumbers, plumbing supplies, drainage, plumbing companies. 1910-1949]

By: G Methven & Company

Reference: Eph-A-PLUMBING-1926-01

Description: Sales catalogue for a Dunedin manufacturer of plumbing and bathroom accessories. Shows (Page 3c) a photograph of Methven's stand at the NZ & South Seas Exhibition. An illustrated list of merchandise including: taps, stop cocks, sewerage fittings, ball cocks, grease cups, plugs and washers, bunsen burners, gas cookers, gas fires and radiators, califonts, gas water heaters, enamel baths, bathroom and toilet requisites, glass shelves, wash basins, showers, mirrors, towel rails, soap dishes, toilets, toilet rolls, urinals, primus stoves, boilers and coppers, furnaces, copper circulators, electric circulators (circulating hot water from the hot water cistern to towel rails, etc), tools, die stocks, sewerage fittings, rabbit exterminators (which pump bisulphide into rabbit holes) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 100 pages, 225 x 143 mm. Provenance: Donated by C W Martin, 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1939.

Date: 1950

By: John Harper & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HOUSEHOLD-Harper-1950

Description: February 1950 price list and individual leaflets advertising products manufactured by the ironmonger John Harper & Company in England. The products were used in New Zealand. Products include: Beatrice oil heaters (models 200, 4012), Beatrice oil stove no 33 and no 44, Beatrice oil boiling stove no 3175, OK Harper 10/2 food chopper, Harper food chopper no 3, no 4001 and no 3181, Harper Beatriz corn mill no 2761, Harper Beatrice coffee mill, OK gas iron, household scales no 3107, 3153 and 3178, potato masher no 3174, Harper anvil no 4006 with attachments, Harper portable gas radiator nos 3160 and 3161 and 4008, Harper griller hotplate no 3177, Harper convector portable gas radiator no 4008, Harper portable gas hotplate no 4007, Harper one-piece radiant portable gas fire for liquid gas no 4003, and Harper "Jolly Nigger" money bank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, loose leaf, each 220 x 150 mm, in maroon folder, 250 x 160 mm.

Date: 1980 - 1989

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to gas as a fuel, natural gas, gas production]

Reference: Eph-B-GAS-1980s

Description: Includes: 1980s: Craig & Seeley Sales Pty Ltd. C & S. The million dollar range. [1980s] 1980: Gas Association of New Zealand. Introduction to compressed natural gas CNG refuelling facilities. Customer service industrial bulletin August 1980 Natural Gas Committee in association with the National Gas Corporation of New Zealand. Natural gas does it all more efficiently, more economically, more reliably. [Booklet of 24 pages] (2 copies) Wellington Gas Company Ltd [Newsletter 1980] (2 copies) 1981: Act now! and be warm this winter with economical natural gas space heating. The natural gas space heating catalogue 1981. Caltex natural gas, the bright new star in New Zealand energy [1981]. (2 copies) New Zealand Oil and Gas Limited. Prospectus [1981] 1983: Wellington Gas Company picnic at Elizabeth Park, 4 December 1983 [Newsletter and map] 1984: [Filling procedure for gas for motor vehicles. 1983] 1985: CNG news extra. Motor fuel only 41c. Fuel facts - CNG 41c; LPG 57c; Petrol 90c. [1985] Gas Association of New Zealand. Natural gas; school project material [1985?] Ministry of Energy. Information Services. Energy insight. LPG [1985] Ministry of Energy. Information Services. Energy insight. The methanol plant [1985] NZ Post. Guidelines for CNG usage [1985?] 1986: New Zealand Industrial Gases Ltd. NZIG 75 years, 1911-1986. Booklet 1988: Natural Gas Association of New Zealand. Save big bills with gas appliances. The great gas pre-winter sale ... ends 31 March 1988. Booklet NZIG Comet 500 and 700 gas regulator; operating and service instructions [1988] Welgas Holdings Ltd. As from Monday 11 July 1988, the offices of Welgas ... will be located at 2nd floor Huddart Parker Building, 2-8 Jervois Quay ... Wellington [Photocopied sheet] 1989: Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association of New Zealand. Here comes ol' man winter. The great gas pre-winter sale. ... ends 31 March 1989. Related material may be housed at subject locations: HOUSEHOLD, PETROL Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, photolithographs, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1959

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSEHOLD-1950s

Description: Includes: 1950s?: The new de luxe Dormeyer electric food mixer. Two-sided flyer Champion presents the new de-luxe combination (high speed gas cooker, water heater and rubbish destructor) [Photocopy of back cover of Champion cookbook ca 1950] J F Hargrave Ltd. Harco space heater; oil fuel means no ashes, no soot, no dirt. Pamphlet ca 1950 Kerosene Appliance Co. NZ Ltd, Wellington. So easy to cook with. The new Embassy pressure cooker [Pamphlet. 1950s?] So easy to cook with; a star turn in every kitchen. The new Omega pressure cooker [1950s?] Premi-Aire. Convert your heating worries into carefree comfort with a Premi-Aire automatic oil floor furnace. [Pamphlet. 1950s] Railware Limited, B10 Haldane Halesfield, Telford England. Radical airer [Pamphlet. 1950s] 1950: "Judge" ware export price list. An interim issue March 1950 [enamel saucepans, kettles, jugs]. Booklet 1954: HMV domestic wringer washer senior 35. Illustrated spare parts list and service manual. With dated service bulletins issued by J & A.P. Scott Ltd in February 1954. 1955: Throw away your clothes line! Norge automatic tumble-dryer [Pamphlet. ca 1955] 1958: H C Little Burner Company Inc. The Ace Aire oil floor furnace. AceAire Ltd Wellington. You get abundant heat at rock bottom cost. [Pamphlet. ca 1958] Zip Kerosine [sic] Radiator spare parts. December 1958 [Flyer] Zip Industries Ltd. Lower Hutt. Know your Zip Kerosine Radiator, Model 'Y' 1959: A wonderful new refrigerator by Kelvinator. 3 wonderful new 8 1/2 cubic foot refrigerators. Magic cycle push-button defrosting. [Flyer. 1959] Kelvinator "Benchline" model. 4.3 cubic foot refrigerator. [Flyer. 1959] Kelvinator 6.2 cubic foot refrigerators. [Flyer. 1959] Kelvinator Foodarama. 13.6 cu.ft. 2-door refrigerator-freezer with automatic defrost. [Flyer. 1959] Leonard 'space-saver' model. 4.3 cubic foot refrigerator. [Flyer. 1959] Meet your Miss Simplicity clothes washer. [Instructions and guarantee pamphlet. 1959] Does not include separately housed items: Eph-B-HOUSEHOLD-1950s-01, Eph-B-HOUSEHOLD-1950s-02, and Eph-B-HOUSEHOLD-1950s-03. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: One item donated from the Nash papers 1980s; one item purchased 2009.

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.

Date: ca 1984

Reference: PAColl-1407

Description: Quantity: 37 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1980

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to gas as a fuel, natural gas, gas production]

By: Rinnai Australia Pty Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-GAS-1980-01

Description: Booklet gives instructions about operating the Rinnai 2000 digital gas heater, including timer instructions. It explains how to care for the heater and gives details of the manufacturer's guarantee. Front cover faded. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 215 x 147 mm.

Date: 1912

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to gas as a fuel, natural gas, gas production]

By: Charles W. Martin and Company Ltd.; Wright & Carman Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-GAS-1912-01

Description: Advertising pamphlet for the Norvic arc gas system shows an illustration on the front, of a small girl operating the machinery, advertised as "the simplest safest and most compact system of lighting for country mansions, houses, bungalows, hotels, churches, drill halls, public buildings, railway stations & villages". The test explains the Norvic system, and gives hints on the selection of a lighting system. Asserts that acetylene was "good in its time, now outclassed", and gives comparative costs of various lighting systems. Manufacturers were Bolton & Paul, contractors to the Admiralty and War Office. Dated from an article in the Evening Post, 31 October 1912, page 17, column 4, which gives the same prices for comparative costs of heating. It states: "The exhibit of the" Norvic" light by incandescent electric light by C. W. Martin and Co., of Tory-street, Wellington, is one of the most striking features of the show. It is installed in an improvised drawing-room, which it illuminates, and in which gas-cooking demonstrations are given. The "Norvic" system, as is explained at the exhibit, is based on the principle of utilisation of air in the dilution of petrol vapour. In effect the gas is practically all air - to be correct, it is composed of 2 per cent of petrol and 98 per cent of air. But the "Norvic" system has the advantage over petrol air gases, in that the air is heated up to about 105 Fahr. before it is incorporated with the petrol. The result is a pure clean odourless gas, which never condenses in the pipes, and is all consumed". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on folded sheet, 280 x 115 mm. Provenance: Donated by C W Martin, 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1939.

Date: 1970

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 1/2-223484-F

Description: Heaters in home, photographed by K E Niven & Co Of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic Film Negative Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 293/70.

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 1/2-210170-F

Description: New World gas cooker, photographed by K E Niven and Co of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative Finding Aids: Studio card index: J. Inglis Wright Ltd. no 1601.

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

From: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965 :Negatives of Napier, Hastings and district

Reference: 1/4-029611-G

Description: Photograph taken by Henry Norford Whitehead. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin glass negative, ¼ plate

Date: [1890s-1930s]

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007345-G

Description: Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000295-G

Description: A stall at a trade fair probably held in Auckland, advertising and displaying the Auckland Gas Company range of stoves. There are various signs one of which reads "We fix our cookers free, with 30ft of pipe and 2ft of flue". Photograph taken by William A Price. Source of descriptive information - This image is one of a number taken at the trade fair, and was dated from the image at 1/2-000266 which had a picture of a stamped envelope, dated 9 Jul 1930. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 1/2-213724-F

Description: Appliances in main show room 1965, photographed by K E Niven & Co of Wellington Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative Finding Aids: Studio card index: no 8039.

Date: 1970

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 1/2-223481-F

Description: Heaters in home, photographed by K E Niven & Co Of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic Film Negative Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 293/70.

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 1/2-213727-F

Description: Show room 1965, photographed by K E Niven & Co of Wellington Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative Finding Aids: Studio card index: no 8040.

Date: 1970

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 1/2-223486-F

Description: Heaters in home, photographed by K E Niven & Co Of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic Film Negative Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 293/70.

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 1/2-210167-F

Description: New World gas cooker, photographed by K E Niven and Co of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative Finding Aids: Studio card index: J. Inglis Wright Ltd. no 1601.