GOD WARD AND McKENZIE’S WORKS.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 23, 1 September 1894, Page 5

GOD WARD AND McKENZIE’S WORKS.

There is at present on exhibition in Messrs Godward and McKenzie’s shop in Dee street a bicycle which has been manufactured on the premises, and which most favourably compares with the best of the imported machines. The machine is finished bright all over —not enamelled —but is left so as to show the brazed joints and general construction, and will give any outsider a good idea of the work required in producing a first quality bicycle. The machine in appearance is neat and elegant, fitted -with Humber Bottom Bracket, ’94 Dunlop Detachable Tyres, and all the latest improvements, weighing 311 b neat. It can be used for either racing or road purposes. The workshops are large and well lighted, and are fitted up with all the latest improved machinery and appliances necessary to turn cut first-class work, including a spoke-cutting and screwing machine, which is a marvel of simplicity and quickness. We were also shown Mr Godward’s patent belt-fastener, which ought to supply the want so long felt. It is certainly the quickest and most effectual in the market. The enamelling room is very well lighted and dust-proof, and contains besides other novelties an oven capable of holding three machines. Messrs Godward and McKenzie are agents for all the best makes of English machines, and have on hand between 20 and 30 first-class mounts. Being agents for so many firms they are posted up in all the very latest novelties And accessories, of which they have always a large stock on hand. Mr Godward, who was formerly employed as chief mechanic for S. R. Steadman, Dunedin, is also first-class repairer from the Surrey Machinists’ Co., Shandand Mason’s, and Emms and Co.’s, London. Every bicycle from the firm is guaranteed’for 12 months, and can be purchased on the time payment system, so as to enable one and all to get a really first-class mount. It is satisfactory to know that anyone wanting a bicycle built to order can pick out their parts and get a really good machine constructed in Invercargill without sending to other parts of the colony.