MESSES. QUICK BROTHERS NEW COACH FACTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 78, 8 April 1870, Page 2

MESSES. QUICK BROTHERS NEW COACH FACTORY.

It will be remembered that a few months ago the very extensive coach factory of Messrs. Quick Brothers, in Elliott-street", was totally destroyed by fire, aportion only of the side walls remaining to show where a very handsome structure formerly stood. At the time of this fire the factory was totally uninsured, and the owners suffered a loss of between £4000 and £50 A). Notwithstanding this loss, they determined not to allow the site to remain idle, and with characteristic energy they set to work to rebuild the premises, which are now very nearly completed, and present a very handsome appearance from Queen-street, when seen from near the market place. In about a week the whole of the work connected with the factory will be finished, and the owners will remove from the temporary building, used by them, in High-street, to their new premises. The factory is one hundred and ten feet long, twenty-seven broad, and thirty-three feet in height. ]t is of brick, cemented on the outside, with a slate roof, and firmly strengthened throughout with iron ties. The lower portion of the factory is divided into three parts. The front one is intended as a carriage repository and show room, in which the vehicles manufactured by Messrs. Quick will be on view. This compartment of the building will bo 60 feet long by 26 broad. Near the entrance is the booking office for passengers by Quick's coaches ; for after the removal to this establishment it will be the place of departure for coac'.es going to Utahulm, Punrmire, Papakura, Waikato, and other places. In the rear of the show room is the bodymakers' and wheelwrights' shop, while behind that again, and in the extreme rear, comes the smiths' shop, furnace, &c. Jn one corner of this shop is the engine which will bo used to turn the lathes on the upper floor, to which we will now briefly refer. On the first floor tliore are three com-

pbrtments of the same size a*, tlxose below, and between each of whit^ sliding doors are fitted up to keep th& dust of one room from getting into th# othersThe front room will be used forv general purposes, stowage of seasoned wood, & c< for the carriages. The next room will be similarly used, while that at the baclc of all is for the turning lathes, breaking, down frames, and other machinery of a similar character necessary for so ex., tensive an establishment. Above thig floor, and immediately under the roof, the second floor will be used as storage rooms for whatever may be on hand and be in the way. In the front compartment of the first floor there is a large door opening to the street, through which the heavy goods will be conveyed upstairs by means of a patent lift fitted above the window on the outside, and which is calculated to life a ton with the greatest ease. The contractor for the brick and plaster work is M r , Bhodes, and for the carpentering wort, Messrs. Kadcliffe and Dugleby. The latter have turned out some of the best work we have seen in the colony, and the manner in which they have finished%f every part of their contract is most creditable to them. Messrs. Quick sjy that they have seen nothing like it since they have been in the country. On the whole, we know of few buildings in Auckland to surpass this coach factory for its general appearance; and we trust that the spirited owners will not, this time, fail to get it fully insured, so that in the event of a similar catastrophe as that which befell the old building, they willr not again be such heavy sufferers. — Herald.