BUSINESS PROGRESS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 485, 27 June 1919, Page 2

BUSINESS PROGRESS.

MESSRS COOPER and CURD MOTOR ENGINEERS. UP-TO-DATE ESTABLISHMENT "Foresight is the weapon of the wise!" That Pukekohe possesses at least a couple of enterprising business men, who are endeavouring to cope with demands of motorists, carriers, and others, is amply borne out by the fact that Messrs Cooper and Curd, the well-known firm of motor engineers, carriage builders, and undertakers, have completed extensive enlargements and alterations to their factory, situated at the corner of King and Edinburgh streets. The building, as it stood only a few months ago, was too small to accommodate the ever-growing business, and enlargement was the only course of action. Tho firm was constituted in 1905, and business was transacted in a 30ft x 20ft building on the corner where the line of King fatreet now stands out as the most up-to-date establishment between the queen city of Auckland and the town of Hamilton. This old building met the demands then, but since that time the iirm has made progress by leaps and bounds, and to-day it cannot tie compared with the Cooper and Curd of fourteen years ago. The present structure, built in brick, has a frontage of 70ft to King screat and 'JOft to Edinburgh street. It is the rear portion of the building that has been enlarged, and ,he addition is 55ft x 25ft, or an extra top floor space of about 1,500 square feet, which is used for a paint shop and a varnish room. The varnishing department has been beautifully finished; in fact, it is finished for its particular purposes as well as a drawing room of the most up-to-date residence. It is absolutely dustproof, and car ownors requiring their automobiles painted can now rely upon a first class job; in fact, the room is the most elaborate between Auckland and Hamilton, and compares favourably with any of its kind in New Zealand. The roof of the additions was shifted intact and now covers the top storey instead of the lower. Next to the paint shop is a show room, where ail vehicles, etc., are on view. To get the vehicles up and down an up-to-date lift has been installed. 0.1 tin ground floor, first of all, thero id the motor garage, which has also been extended, the floor capacity now beiug 90ft x 25ft. In this has been installed all the equipment obtaining to a motor garage, as well as an v.p to >iate lathe. The carriage factory is as large as before, and therein is housed all the necessary plaut, which includes a '25 h.p suction gas ongino, driving tin who'e of the uiachino, as well tho lift. There is a coke crusher, tyre bender, power blower for two fires, and spring furnace, drilling machine, emery wheel, grindstone, band saw, spoke tanging, and felloe boring machine, planer and sharer, aud everything perUining to an elaborate carriage factory.

The "shed "in which the original business was trwisac ed is not allowed to go idle, as it is stocked with timber spokes, felloes and hard wood of all de>ciipthms The tirni specialises in undertaking and a large stock of undertakers' materials are on hand, while glass wraths are very conspicuous. Tho largo staff, when a Time-reporter looked over tho building wre busily engaged building waggons tor Pokeno, Van renjra. ind Hamilton

Tho alteration t - in • sMruetu-" wore made by Mr \V. Mas-toy, of Piikuk'hn tin'! mi oxcdlent job i! iton.

It ran bo dal'oiy sUted that this lirmistho most up-to dato in tho wholo of the province, Mr Cooper in conversation said the firm hud looked ahead, but if business was as brisk as it had beon during the last few years, more alterations will have to be made the near future. " Where is your space'/" asked the pressman '' Oh, we can go overhead and we intend to do so," said Mr Cooper Without a doubt, tho firm is an enterprising one and tho public can rely on having a good job, plus skilled workmanship and genuine materials at the ahnvementionod t'stablishment