Huge Oven For Hamilton
The biggest oven ever made by the only South Island oven-makers will be carted over the hill to Lyttelton to be loaded on the Onehunga today. It is a 37-ton bread-baking oven made for a Hamilton bakery by Industrial Electric. Ltd., of Christchurch. It is 42ft by 12ft Bin wide by 9ft high, and is the biggest of 66 ovens the firm has made in
the last nine years. Its only competitors are three Auckland firms. The oven is a fully-auto-matic oil-burner, which automatically loads, lids and unloads the bread tins. It can bake 1700 21b loaves an hour The firm also made a final prover. in which the dough rises before being loaded into the oven. Together, the oven and prover cost about
£21,000. An even bigger oven—l4ft longer and able to bake 2000 . loaves an hour—is now being . made for a Wellington . bakery. Because of its size it , is being built in two pieces. An automatic final prover I will go with it i Mr C. I. Reid, manager of > the firm, said that two-thirds i of the firm s ovens were made t for North Island bakeries.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30178, 9 July 1963, Page 7
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