A CREDITABLE JOB.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 59, 5 November 1914, Page 3

A CREDITABLE JOB.

Harkness’ foundry is not claimed to he the biggest in the world nor even in New Zealand; hut the proprietor does claim for it that it is up-to-date and capable of doing work of the same description turned out in the bigger shops. When the place was put up a point was made of having everything on the most up-to-date model, and it is claimed that probably throughout the length and breadth of New Zealand there is not a better type of furnace than that installed at Harkness’ foundry. A result of this policy is that work of every description can be undertaken, and a casting which has just been made well indicates the capacity of the shop. This is a fly-wheel for Mr Julian’s stone-crusher, which this morning was on the lathe. Lour ladles of molten metal were required for the job, and though, naturally, the pouring in of this nineteen hundredweight of metal into the mould at the same instant was a ticklish operation, the casting process was entirely successful. As it now stands the wheel iveiglrs about fourteen hundred weight, the diameter of it being in the vicinity' ol four feet. -The casting is the largest ever made in Stratford, and it is a job of which the firm has every reason to .feel proud.