JAS. J. NIVEN AND CO.,

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1924, Page 16

JAS. J. NIVEN AND CO.,

Engineers and Engineers' Merchants, I'almerston N. and Eteenlicre.

This progressive firm,/ -which , have branches at Auckland, ,-'l)miedin, and London, with head office;at Wellington, and works :at 'Hamilton, Gisborhe, v.Wairoa „(Hawkes-Bay), Napier;' Palmerston North, Wellington,' and 'Ohirisfchurch, with warehouses 'al every branch and bulk store in 'addition; at Wellington, occupy a- proud position' amongst engineering firms ia New-Zealand. „They are agents for many of Britain's best productions, including National gas engines, electrormqtors, and Bruce Peebles' i motors, Blackman ' fans, Cambridge scientific instruments,. -Hopkinsbn's valves, Vernier . time' . switches/ Broadbent's hydro extractors, and Atlas' .metals. In1 addition, they are manufacturers of all classes of machinery, including the well-known National, ammonia' icompr.essors andl freezing machinery, which has found its way into many freezing works, dairy 'faetojries, etc., and were the-pioneers in the manufacture of a high; revolution freezing machine, suitable, for direct coupling to a gas engine,• the Cambridge patent suction gas producer; plant,, of which they | have manufactured ' and installed upwards.o.f 15,<300^h.p. during the past ten years. .. r ... : The Permutit' water-softening plant, dairy freezing works, and sawmill plant of all descriptions^ steam log-hauling .engines, steam aerial logging gear, steam pile-driving- and dredging winches, excavating machinery, flax-dressing machinery, steam boilers, digesters, patent; manure drying plant, hydraulic ajjdi contmnous ( screw presses, wool-baling and dumping presses, and pumps. They are specialists, in the manufacture of road-, making machinery, and at their recentlyacquired' Christchureh ■' works manufacture the well-known colonial gold, niedal drill and other farming machinery. They have a large and-well-equipped steel and malleable iron foundry, and, specialise in machine and plate-moulding for. repetition work*. To .'sum up the position, there is no engineering work too 'largo ;for t them to tackle or too small to interest them, and they_ cater for work of •every description, including steam,- suction gas, electric, or pneumatic power installations. Anyone with ' engineering problems to handle- would do well to make application to . any of their branches. Then- business motto is: "Sei'i vice.and success.'1 The' Palmerston _ branch,., situated in Church street west,' is equipped with up-to-date, plant; and t is at present engaged on a repair job, for which a steel shaft weighing over 1J- toijs was successfully machined and fitted, .which is easily the biggest job that'has ever been undertaken in the Manawatu' district. They have all the facilities o£ machinery and expert staff required to -cater for the inanfacture, erection/ of. repair of any machinery in the district. ■'- ; : The firm's business motto- is '"service and success." That they have succeeded in .building up a .-Very large business throughout New Zealand is a' good iiidi-' cation that the firm's motto -is no misnomer, and that Niveri and Co arc in cvcWf wuy (nullified to undoiru.vkc! any englnefirms wo.rk« ■