RAILWAY WORKSHOPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1928, Page 17

RAILWAY WORKSHOPS.

HEATING AND VENTILATION. A DOMINION CONTRACT. LET TO NEW ZEALAND COMPANY. (By Telegraph.—Special to “Star.”) DUNEDIN, this day. A. and T. Burt, Ltd., have been successful in securing a contract for complete installation of the Plenum heating and ventilating plants in the railway workshops throughout the Dominion, and thus become responsible for the design and complete installation of plants at Hutt Valley, Otahuhu, Hillside, and Addington. The work is to be completed in eight months. Preliminaries are already effected, and actual operations are to commence in a fortnight or three weeks. The contract price is not disclosed, hut it is known that British firms were tendering, and this enhances the significance of the New Zealand firm securing the contract. It is also gratifying to know that more than half the apparatus required will be constructed in A. and T. Burt’s various works throughout the Dominion.

The system of ventilation and heating to be adopted is the newest and most approved that the world knows of. All big munition works in the Old Country were equipped during the great war on this system. Steam is used, and electric fans and large conduits are an integral factor.