Tenders Called For Big Wool Store At Lyttelton

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31150, 29 August 1966, Page 8

Tenders Called For Big Wool Store At Lyttelton

A wool store of 36,960 sq. ft. near Cashin quay will be built by the Lyttelton Harbour Board and permanently leased to the Shaw Savill and Albion Company, Ltd. Tenders are now being called.

The store has been designed by Messrs Manson. Seward, and Stanton, Christchurch architects, to the specific requirements of the Shaw Savill company to replace its timberframed store at Lyttelton. The rectangular singlestorey building will be 280 ft long and 130 ft wide, and a mezzanine floor inside will provide another 2020 sq. ft. of office and amenity space. The exterior walls will be tilt-up concrete panels to a height of 9ft with asbestos cladding above and on the roof. Columns, purlins, and roof trusses will be steel. The floors will be of reinforced concrete with bituminous hot-mix topping in the wool store and vinyl tiles in the offices. The company’s existing store is owned by Shaw Savill under ground lease from the Lyttelton Borough Council. This site must be totally cleared for new rail tracks, access road, and an overbridge to serve Cashin quay. Working drawings for extensive additions to the present store were almost completed several years ago when it was found that replanning on a new site would be necessary. The new store must be completed and In us* before

the old one can be vacated and demolished. The new building is expected to be in use by the beginning of the 1967-68 wool season. It will have modern dumping and mechanical handling machinery.