Pumping machinery

Date: ca 1890

By: Eustace, C H, active 1890s

Reference: PA4-1030

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a high pressure cylinder at Waihi mine. Photograph taken by C H Eustace of Waihi New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - High pressure cylinder Waihi Mine; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - C H Eustace. Photo. Waihi, N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

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: 1948 - 1950

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-0958/0971

Description: Includes plans and elevations of powerhouse and pump room, fuel oil service tanks for oil burning plant, concrete seatings for pumps and fuel unit, details and elevations of retaining wall, plans and elevations of boilerhouse, and general arrangement of oil fuel burning and steam connections for new boiler. Quantity: 14 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprints, ink drawings, and diazo prints, sizes varying

Date: 1968 - 1975

Reference: Eph-B-MACHINERY-1975-01

Description: Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet various pagination, 300 x 233 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1935

By: A. & G. Price Ltd.; Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-MACHINERY-1930-01

Description: A promotional booklet illustrated with photographs of the company's works and head office at Thames, modern road graders, a vaccum butter churn, the Hauraki steam steriliser, a boiling down plant, dairying machinery (pumps), timer jack, logging blocks, bush locomotives, sawmill machinery, gate deal frame, lifting jacks, piston ring pot castings, crane gearing for the Waikaremoana Hydro scheme, boilers, engine cranks, petrol tank railway cars, fuel oil burners; there are also photographs of the inside of the machine shop, the Auckland Branch building exterior and machine shop interior, a photograph of the Whenuahura Viaduct and steam locomotives. Dated ca 1930, because of a mention on page 17 of the Waikaremoana Hydro Scheme which was first commissioned in 1929. Quantity: 1 sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Catalogue of 24 pages, 288 x 226 mm.

Date: 1913

By: Reid & Gray Ltd; Babendorfer, R (Mr), active 1987

Reference: Eph-B-FARM-MACHINERY-1913-01

Description: Includes engravings illustrating the products available from this machinery manufacturer and supplier: ploughs, harrows, cultivators, rollers, drills, baggers, chaffcutters, turnip cutters, drays and wagons, windmills, pumps, sheep shears, milking machines, separators, binders and mowers, thistle cutters. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 84 pages, red covers, 280 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr R Babendorfer in 1987.

Date: 1937

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to machines, machinery, engines, mechanical engineering]

By: Pallo Engineering Ltd; Timlin, Desmond Albert, 1926-2001

Reference: Eph-A-MACHINERY-1937-01

Description: Handbook for the maintenance of an electrically-driven petrol pump shows a picture of the pump opposite the foreword. Throughout are diagrams, specifications and instructions relating to installation, petrol leakage, electric wiring, filters, float chamber, sight glass and delivery elbow, delivery nozzle, air separator, recording mechanism, liquid meter glands, calibration. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound booklet of 128 pages, 187 x 120 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Archway Books, in 2016. Previously owned by D A Timlin, installation & service engineer, whose stamps are on front and back pages.

Date: 1976-1978

By: Brown Brothers Engineers Limited

Reference: Eph-B-MACHINERY-Brown-1976/1978

Description: Includes memos, including additions and replacements to the Brown Brothers 'Master pump catalogue'. Memos are dated: 27 August 1976, 10 January 1977, 28 February 1977, 30 June 1977, 15 September 1977, October 1977, December 1977, October 1978 Also includes memos / updates for the 'Master spare parts catalogue'. Memos are dated 1 August 1976, 16 August 1976, 11 January 1977. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Pages

Date: [ca 1960]

By: Davys, C G, active 1960

Reference: PA-Group-00861

Description: Photographs of pump making firm MacEwans, possibly in Hamilton or Auckland, taken circa 1960 by C G Davys. Images chiefly show the interior of the factory. Some include unidentified male workers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 25 b&w original negative(s). 9 b&w original photographic print(s) (5 have corresponding negatives). Physical Description: Photographic prints, film negatives Provenance: Donated by Kevin Crosado on behalf of the NZ Railway and Locomotive Society Inc. 2013 The photographer C G Davys originally left Bob Mann his photographs, who in turn left them to the NZ Railway and Locomotive Society. This set was not of interest to the Society, who passed them to the Library. The relationship between the photographer and the factory is unknown.

Date: 1910

From: [Ephemera and sales catalogues of octavo size, for agricultural machinery and farm equipment. 1910-1930]

By: Reid & Gray Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-MACHINERY-1910-02

Description: Price list for farm machinery and other agricultural supplies. Includes illustrations of products including: ploughs, harrows, turnip thinners, ridgers, cultivators, rollers, drills, chaffcutters, baggers, turnip cutters, grinding mills, wool presses, wagons and drays, windmills, saw benches, wire strainers, "Hornsby" oil engines, "Austral" milking machine, "Rex" churn, gas and petrol engines, windmill pump, dairy pump, rakes, mowers, traction engines, threshers. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, each 210 x 146 mm. Provenance: Purchased in the 1990s.

Date: 1934 - 1936

By: P & D Duncan (Firm); J W Baty Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-FARM-MACHINERY-1935-01

Description: Illustrated chart and price list for the following agricultural products: ploughs, harrows, turnstiles, garden seats, drills, top dresser, road scoops, buck scoops, Smith's electric pumps, Cambridge pattern clod crusher, Duncan's patent turnip and mangold cutter, hay rake, grass seed stripper, hap press, Duncan's motor hap sweep, "The Hornet" stiff-tooth cultivator, Duncan's O.K. windmill. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on both sides of sheet 760 x 507 mm.

Date: 1988

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-802

Description: Shows a man having his car serviced at a petrol station. A sign says that petrol costs 93 cents a litre and the man objects, saying that the government said last week that petrol would be down to 86 cents a litre and he wonders if the service station is ignoring the government. The service station attendant denies this and says that they are doing their bit to keep inflation down by putting a 'not working' notice above the air pump. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Letratone, ink and crayon on paper, 320 x 485 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: ca 1890

From: Campbell, Eve, fl 1976 :Stereographs

By: Eustace, C H, active 1890s

Reference: PA4-0703

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a man standing beside a cylinder used for pumping purposes. Photograph taken by C H Eustace of Waihi New Zealand Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Cylinder for pumping purposes. inside measurement 14 x 9ft; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - C H Eustace. Photo. Waihi, N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by Mrs E Campbell, July 1976

Date: 1928

By: P & D Duncan (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-FARM-MACHINERY-1928-01

Description: Price list for farm machinery and other agricultural supplies. Includes illustrations of products including: ploughs, plough parts and accessories, whippletrees and yokes, harrows and cultivators, clod crushers, seeders and drills, sowers, wagons and drays, trucks and motor vehicles, horse-loading crane for drays and wagons, rakes, stackers, strippers, sweeps, elevators and threshing machines, roadworking equipment (trucks for spreading road metalroad graders, road scoops, road scrapers, sweepers), sanitary cart, water carts, dust carts, well-sinking machinery, windmills and pumps, windmill parts, wool presses, motor car part, gorse cutters. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 142 pages, each 240 x 190 mm. Provenance: Purchased in the 1990s.

Date: 1931

By: Reid & Gray Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FARM-MACHINERY-1931-01

Description: Price list for farm machinery and other agricultural supplies. Includes illustrations of products including: ploughs, harrows, strippers, rollers, wool press, drills, ridgers, chaffcutters, top dressers, corn crushers, cutters, grinders, saw benches, pump jacks, cream separators. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of various paginations, each 280 x 210 mm. Provenance: Purchased in the 1990s.

Date: 1931

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to machines, machinery, engines, mechanical engineering]

By: Booth, Macdonald & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-MACHINERY-1931-01

Description: Advertising booklet, illustrating products, including: windmill installation and towers, windmill pumps, deep well pumps, common lift pumps, double-acting tank pumps, diaphragm pumps, "Westco" pump, Myers pumps, rotary pumps, the Carlyle geared rotary pump, centrifugal pumps, Pomono turbine pump. Booth electric household pump, Boothmac self-oiling electirc pump, Boothmac automatic pumping outfit, the Chippewa pump, the "Tricjack" pumping outfit, Boothmac skim milk pumps, pump jacks, power pumping outfits, Booth one man sprayer, hydraulic rams, special service ram. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 52 pages, each 210 x 142 mm. Provenance: Purchased in the 1990s.

Date: 1947

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to machines, machinery, engines, mechanical engineering]

By: Roy, Jennifer, active 2006

Reference: Eph-A-MACHINERY-1947-01

Description: An instruction manual for the operation of Boothmac pressure water systems, with some points on installation, periodical inspection, replacement parts and how to obtain them, description of parts, cross section of Boothmac 400 horizontal pump. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, each 180 x 137 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jennifer Roy, Wellington, from the estate of John and Mary Roy, in 2006.

Date: ca 1890

By: Eustace, C H, active 1890s

Reference: PA4-0851B

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a man standing beside a cylinder used for pumping purposes. Photograph taken by C H Eustace of Waihi New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Cylinder for pumping purposes. inside measurement 14 x 9ft; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - C H Eustace. Photo. Waihi, N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1906

By: Reid & Gray Ltd; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-B-FARM-MACHINERY-1906-01

Description: Price list for farm machinery and other agricultural supplies. Includes illustrations of products including: double-furrowed plough, single-furrow plough, swamp plough, road plough and other ploughs, garden cultivators, swingletrees, yokes, harrows, rollers, seed strippers, seed drills, turnip sower, turnip thinner, chaffcutters and baggers, seed crushers, grinding mills, wool presses, wagons, galvanised steel windmills and towers, wool baling presses, saw benches, pumps, traction engines, threshers, straw folding elevators, Hornsby oil engine, etc. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 68 pages, each 275 x 210 mm. Provenance: Purchased in the 1990s.

Date: 1917

By: Reid & Gray Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FARM-MACHINERY-1917-01

Description: Price list for farm machinery and other agricultural supplies. Includes illustrations of products including: baggers, belting, chaffcutters, chains, corn crushers, cultivators, drays, drills, elevators, farm fanners, garden seats, grass strippers, grinding mills, grubbers, harrows, horse clippers, horse hoes, knife grinders, lawn mowers, lime sower, lubrication, mowers, oil and petrol engines, ploughs, pumps, rakes, ridgers, rollers, saw bench, scales, scarifiers, scufflers, sdde sowers, separators, sheep shears, shares (cast), steel wheels, subsoilers, swingletrees, thinners, thrashers, traction engines, tractor ploughs, wagons, windmills, wire strainers, wool presses. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 92 pages, each 275 x 210 mm. Provenance: Purchased in the 1990s.