AUCKLAND FIRM’S SUCCESS
LARGE CONTRACT SECURED The Amalgamated Brick and Pipe Company. Limited, has placed a contract for the extension of its brick and. pipe plant at New Lynn with the Vulcan Steel Construction Companv, Ltd. This Auckland firm was in competition with overseas engineering firms. lis tender showed a considerable saving and its delivery time was two months less than that required by the other manufacturers. The plant was designed by the Amalgamated Brick and Pipe Company’s superintendent engineer. Mr. J. R. Todd, and the approximate cost of the additional plant is more than £B,OUO. When the reconstruction work has been completed it is anticipated that the works will be the finest of their kind in New Zealand. The remodelling is being carried out on lines similar to those of the most up-to-date factories in England, Australia and America.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1080, 18 September 1930, Page 9
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140AUCKLAND FIRM’S SUCCESS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1080, 18 September 1930, Page 9
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