An Artist-Engineer.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1790, 8 November 1919, Page 5 (Supplement)

An Artist-Engineer.

"If they paid me £SO per day for work—just mere work—without my having to do any thinking, I would not accept it"—an unusual attitude, one might say truly, as regards the great majority of ordinary mortals. But then the average man works, not for the sake of work, but in order that he may be able to provide himself and those dependent on him with the necessaries of life. Not so Mr J. Tranter, of Tranter and Sons, motor engineers. Maybe it is just as necessary for Mr Tranter to work as it is for anybody else, but the difference is that Mr Tranter actually loves his work. He is a born tradesman, to whom a piece of machinery is as a rare work of art is to the artist, or a rare plant to the naturalist. Born amidst the forges of a great British industrial town, his infant days spent amongst them, in the mines at eight years of age, and self-taught in the matter of general education, Mr Tranter has had a career of self-reliance during the 50 years of his working life, and it has been the operation of this quality, combined with an undoubted mechanical genius, that has made him the most competent motor engineer in the City of Christchurch, capable of doing any job on any car, no matter how difficult it may be. When the ordinary garage proprietor at last throws a job up in despair, as beyond his capacity The has one resource left—send it to Tranter. And Tranter never fails; never has failed. The more difficult it is, the better Mr Tranter likes it. J. Tranter and Sons have no agencies for cars: the work they do is that of reconstructing and repairing. They make all the parts required, and the materials they use are of one quality only—the very best obtainable. The plant contains the most up-to-date and efficient machinery, excelling in this respect any other motor engineering establishment in the city. If a car-owner wishes to be absolutely sure that his disabled car will be put right, he can get that assurance by taking it to J. Tranter and Sons, St. Asaph Street, Christchurch: A feature of the work done by J. Tranter & Sons is the fact that it does not matter in the least what type of car the firm is called upon to repair or reconstruct. One type of car can be handled as well as another. Last month 27 different types of cars were put through the firm's workshops.