William Cable and Company Ltd

Date: [Between 1938 and 1940]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-061

Description: Album of publicity photographs, and photographs of posters and advertisements taken by unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. Many of the images in this album were taken for a series of articles written by Oliver Neal Gillespie between January 1939 and June 1940, published in the New Zealand Railways Magazine. The series was entitled "Buy New Zealand goods and build New Zealand. New Zealand Industries Series". These contribute the largest group of images in the album, covering a wide range of industries. They include men's and women's clothing manufacturers; electrical engineering companies such as Pallo Engineering (petrol pumps), National Engineering (Neeco electric ovens), Standard Engineering Company; tobacco factories; potteries; Nugget shoe polish factory; brushware factories; and companies associated with the manufacture of food products (eg Watties canneries, Edmonds Baking Powder, Griffins and Bycrofts biscuit makers, and Whittome & Stevenson sauce and pickle makers. There are other sequences of images, including newly built state housing in Lower Hutt, with some houses still under construction beside the Hutt River, a streetscape, and a children's playground (p 7-8); a large crowd joining in a send-off of R.S.A. men to Australia in April 1938; a train laden with boxes of oranges from Rarotonga, the "Special orange train from Auckland"; and photographs of charts showing the progress of the New Zealand Government Railways, with railways workshops staff organisation charts (for Otahuhu, Addington, Hutt & Hillside Workshops (p 28-29). On p 35 there are views of a new hangar at Rongotai Aerodrome, under construction, then views of the completed exterior and the interior with a row of Blackburn B-5 Baffin bi-planes. Several images show collection of Railway sports trophies (including cups for their cricket teams), and two views of New Zealand Railways staff member Neil Edwards, a tennis champion who represented New Zealand in Britain in 1939. Pages 39-41 show the construction of a large dredge on the West Coast; p 57 show a burst watermain on Waterloo Quary, wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 7'; 41 x 61 cm

Date: 1966 - 1968

From: Toomath Wilson Irvine Anderson, architects :[Architectural plans. 1955-1988].

By: Toomath, Wilson, Irvine, Anderson Ltd; William Cable and Company Ltd

Reference: Plans-2005-057-0235

Description: Includes location plans, layout of marina berths, plans of the proposed new slipway, plans for proposed new clubhouse and new winch house. Also includes two plans by William Cable Ltd for a 6-ton slipway winch. Quantity: 13 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper, and diazo prints, sizes varying up to 680 x 1000 mm.

By: Photo Engravers; Cable Price Downer; Brierley Investments Ltd

Reference: Curios-021-011/013

Description: Includes blocks for images as follows: Row of bells, the closest of which is engraved (to the memory of?) S A Rhodes and William Barnard Rhodes; the bells in place in a belfry; and a large cylinder tank made by Wm Cable & Co Ltd. Mrs S A Rhodes died in 1913. Quantity: 3 curio(s). Physical Description: Zinc plates on wooden blocks, sizes ranging from 105 x 157 mm, to 82 x 109 mm. Transfers: Part of Cable Price Downer papers, donated by Brierley Investments in 1998..

Date: 15 Jul 1998

From: Welsh Society of Wellington Oral History Project

By: Wilkins, John, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0728/22

Description: John Wilkins born Abergwili, Carmarthenshire, Wales 1925. Refers to Brynmervyn estate, the largest house in the area. Describes school in Wales, Welsh language classes and training as a draughtsman with the Engineering Section of the Post Office at Swansea in 1942. Recalls being in a Reserved Occupation, servicing aerodromes for Coastal Command. After World War II recalls applying and being accepted for position in Southern Rhodesia, arriving Oct 1948. Describes work in Design Office of the Post Office, designing and maintaining records for the northern half of Southern Rhodesia. Describes life in Rhodesia, lifestyle of tobacco farmers and village of dependent workers. Recalls meeting a young nurse on board ship and marriage at St Peter's Anglican church, Carmarthen while on leave. Discusses church and chapel crossing of denomination boundaries. Describes move to New Zealand, travelling on the M V Ixion from Cape Town to Sydney and then on the M V Wanganella. Talks about work experience with the New Zealand Post Office, then six years in design work with William Cable before joining Chief Design Engineer, Frank Kerslake who went out on his own with involvement with Kawerau and Caxton Paper Mills. Refers to electric power line pylons, substations, Wairakei and steel portal frames. Backgrounds involvement with the Welsh Society and his increasing interest in developing his Welsh conversation. Mentions Percy and Heulwen Jones, and Marjorie Gee. Describes visit back to Wales and talks of miners' education in the arts, choirs and visits of various male choirs to New Zealand. Refers to Dafydd Iwan. Describes interest in painting, developing his oil painting to a standard exhibit in the Academy of New Zealand and current interest in calligraphy and history. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - David Hughes Venue - 69 Moorefield Road Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011926 ; OHLC-005984 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4110.

Date: May 1947-Jun 1955

From: Cable Price Downer : Records

Reference: 91-214-60/3

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1949-1952

From: Cable Price Downer : Further records

Reference: 91-299-06/09

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Aug-Nov 1955

From: Cable Price Downer : Records

Reference: 91-214-82/2

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1951-1953

From: Cable Price Downer : Records

Reference: 91-214-48/5

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Oct 1945-May 1953

From: Cable Price Downer : Records

Reference: 91-214-62/5

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Aug-Nov 1956

From: Cable Price Downer : Records

Reference: 91-214-83/3

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Feb-May 1957

From: Cable Price Downer : Records

Reference: 91-214-84/1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Oct 1958-Apr 1959

From: Cable Price Downer : Records

Reference: 91-214-85/3

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1928-1968]

By: Beale, Noela, 1910-1992

Reference: MS-Papers-4685

Description: Consists of correspondence dealing with company matters, many referring to James Cable's campaign for a 44 hour week, newspaper clippings reporting on the company, the 44 hour week campaign and Noela Cable's presentation at court, company reports and related papers, James Cable's wharf pass, family birth and marriage certificates and other miscellaneous material. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs relating to Cable companies.

Date: Nov 1955-Mar 1956

From: Cable Price Downer : Records

Reference: 91-214-82/3

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: May 1955-Aug 1956

From: Cable Price Downer : Records

Reference: 91-214-82/1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1947-1963

From: Cable Price Downer : Further records

Reference: 91-299-03/4

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: Mar-Jul 1958

From: Cable Price Downer : Records

Reference: 91-214-85/1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1968

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1968/3838B-F

Description: Wheelhouse on the ship 'Gothic', renovated (after fire damage) before leaving for Britain. Photographs taken in Wellington, circa 8 August 1968, for W Cable Ltd, by an Evening Post staff photographer. Publication note - Not published in Evening Post Source of descriptive information - Negative envelope. Information about W Cable Ltd from negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: Mar-May 1956

From: Cable Price Downer : Records

Reference: 91-214-82/4

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: May-Aug 1957

From: Cable Price Downer : Records

Reference: 91-214-84/2

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).