ACETONE ILLUMINATING AND WELDING COMPANY
AN INDUSTRY IX X A PIER SOUTH. Messrs Jas. J. Niven and Co.. Ld., have prepared plans and specifications for new premises for the Acetone Illuminating and Welding Company, Ltd., to be < reeled on ■ their property at the corner of Faulkner and Owen slrcets, Napier South. The new building will consist of a spacious machinery room, a producer house, acetylene gencialing ioom. nitrous oxide generating room ami purifier room, the total area covered being approximate!.? 35,350 square feet. The building has been designed cn modern lines and will be in every respect particularly well adapted fo> the purpose for which it is intended. It will be constructed with reinforced concrete foundations, -vails amt floors, thus making it fireproof throughout. The roof over the ma chinery room will be covered with wood purlins and galvanised cu.-ru-gated iron, and supported or? four elliptical steel trusses Ihe full width of the building. From thes r trusses tile shafting for driving th< various machines will be supported. Tiie building will be top-lighted with three rows of skylights and ven tilatcd with six large ventilators on the ridge and circular louvre windows in gables. The tender of Messrs. Bcagley ami Angus has been accepted for ' the work, Messrs Niven and Co supplying the steel trusses and all othei ironwork. The machinery which the Acetone. Company propose installing in these premises will be driven by a 55 8.H..P. National gas engine, the gas being generated by a 75 H.H.P. National suction gas producer plant.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 103, 16 April 1912, Page 5
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253ACETONE ILLUMINATING AND WELDING COMPANY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 103, 16 April 1912, Page 5
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