JAS. J. NIVEN AND CO.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4705, 30 May 1924, Page 2

JAS. J. NIVEN AND CO.

o— —— GENERAL AND REFRIGERATING ENGINEER& Visitors to the Winter dhow who are interested in engineering and machinery will find much that will interest them at the spacious exhibit of Me-srs J. J. Niven and Co., Ltd., general and refrigerating engineers. The Company, who are manufacturers of refrigerating machinery, are exhibiting their famous National freezing machines. These machines, of 1 ton ice capacity and upwards, are manufactured hi. Napier. They possess no suction valve, being worked entirely on the port system. Being a Dominion production they are manufactured •strictly to standard gauges, providing interchangability Of all parts and ensuring not only a ready supply of spa ,- e parts guaranteed to lit, but the availability of service for which the manufacturers have beep noted tor well over a century, other interesting exhibits arc the Barnes extension bed lathe and the famous Cambridge gas producer, the latter being manufactured in Wellington. __ A.-l jU ’ 4IS? vaiied range of machinery for which the firm are sole agents or manufacturers, comprising tools and drilling machines, Keith blower fans, Blackman fans, Guynne’s centrifugal pumps, boilers and log. haulers. Bruce Peebles motors, AutoAir Compressor plant, Temco electric drills, swamp harrows, machine-cut gears. Schevler carburetters, Bosch magnetos, and the many other lines for which they are noted, will convey to visitors some idea of the varied nature of the activities' of this prpgres- 1 sive firm. This organisation covers the whole of the Dominion from the North Cape to the Bluff, with head offices at Wellington and engineering works at Hamilton (Ohakune to Thames being included in this town’s territory), Wellington. Palmerston North. Napier, Wairoa (H. 8. and Gisborne, and branches at Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and London. A large and efficient staff of 27 skilled operatives under the able management of Mr T. A. Campbell, is employed at the foundry in Bryce Street, Hamilton, where all classes of engineering work, castings in gtto metal, brass, phosa, bronze, aluminium, Iron, and steel, and machinery repairs are faithfully undertaken. Inquiries are solicited at the bit during the Show.