A. and G. Price's Foundry.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3071, 18 December 1878, Page 2

A. and G. Price's Foundry.

: The foundry and engine manufactory of the enterprising firm of A. and G. Price is foremost in the ranks of our local industries.., The firm, from a comparatirely small beginning, by the excellence of the work it turns out, has reached a position which the largest iron manufacturing firms in our laiger colonial cities might well envy. Year by year the Slock of machinery has been, added to, until at present the machipe room is replete with all appliances necessary for turning out the'largest and most intricate piecss of machinery. In addition'to the moulding, fitting, pattern making, and blacksmiths' shops, the firm are , now erecting a lar&e boiler shop, which is fast approaching completion. The shop is 120 x 3Ojfiek-.and-thajEork~«f constructing ft large number of boilers al the same time can be carried on with ease, A new eugjie is now being buill for driving the machinery incidental to the manufacture of boilers, which will comprise a large punching and shearing machine, plate bending rollers, fans, drilling machines, &o. The shop will be placed under;the control of a first-class man, and the firm expect to employ some ten or a dozen additional hands in the new industry. Some idea of the work

turned out at present, and the amount of money it requires to circulate to keep the ball rolling, may be gained from the fact that over 40 hands are now kept constantly employed, and there is plenty of work now on hand to last for some time. Some time ago the staple production of the firm was timber jacks, but the manufacture of these useful article! has now taken a -secondary place from the press of engine work that has lately fallen to them. The firm has just supplied a 16 inch horizontal engine to a Mr Nicholson's sawmill, Wairoa Kirer, Kaipara, and they are also supplying to that gen* tlemen a pair of large Cornish - boilers, ' which will be shortly despatched to their destination. They have the follbwiag work on hand at present:—A Qompound surface condensing engine of 25 horse power nominal, to the order of Messrs Holmes Bros., of the North Shore, Auckland, which is to be placed in a steam boat for the Coromandel Steamship Company, now being built by the latter firm; a pair of inverted high pressure steam engines of 20 horse power, for the proprietors of the Te Kopuru Sawmill,' Kaipara, and a boiler, is also to be supplied; a pair of •nginei similar to the abore, of 13 hone

power, for Messrs Moore and Snowline for their new steamer, now being built by Mr V. Savage, of Shonland* (a boiler is to be constructed for the same ressel); a boiler and 10 horse power inverted single cylinder engine, for a steamer to be built for the Thames Produce Company by Mr Jiobt. Stone, of Shortland. From the above it will be seen that the hands of the firm are pretty full, and the number of orders they have from different parts of the province is ample proof of the populanty of the very superior articles they turn out. . Wl ,^ , -..._.