LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13995, 2 September 1909, Page 7

LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

ENGINEERING IN TIMARU. - ; "FROM A NEEDLE TO AN*- ♦ ANCHOR." : . 3Ji «|i i Parf and Co. have pretty? coapkted tlwir arrangements for tb carrying on ofan enlarged busi-aess'-.aa engineers in their new location aa Oifci itacet «The transplanting : their appliances from the, old stand «a- Melvilte.-Hillwas-completed ; sobc • little llima'-agb,- but'fhe wWer elbow roomafforded br a section on the son- - lhernareclamation^invited ;v exten»»qn.--o^ twri that ability to do would lead to _de-' Bud-far' doiag.saggested additions to : -tlfe"ap|ilianc«a,j and 5 are Bowrnearly 'iin* r T. bang.. Weare now able .to t#ckle. : •• :f»y.> job .thatcoraos "along—from. - a V. M(dleit9;aß iKiwr/- taid' a'member oi >v " tW fina.sbowuig a " Herald" . a aenlatifeover. their . premises. The' firm itself has also been added . to." Parr and Co." has liitberto. Bfeut llr. Robert Pair and Mc Robert- - LiSrS alwild prove ,valuable. to the--, v": rhwMail {<>■;{! .aerred'* his . . appreatacAhip T to-'en£jnee*ing in thei ii^ Moavpmbc,, ot, Bir-° -, -anachiit~tlie/makers of the. combined in- ,use in' the ( ' "nasra ehttiMl, powpr-house.'-'. . Sub- ■■ - - sailed: a» : chief- engineer, in nviw "tramp" " steamers, and ~af-, 3 icn-'j the New Zealand: Ship-' " ii 'the " fe: aaiiitiefor gboA.iii lio;was. 'vfor. j aoaae - time' in -charge of > the ina-' p%!d6miky<£t the freeung f *;oHpK " JaM when the Pareora r'v.iaJUii^^ L MrfLamb:came*' J down'' -and' feyiiiiiiili mkd -the installation' of «thfc , «f machinery and tbeß,' afterwards tc:^pßUM'r: -u> : cliareß of-'them-for» five , s«m. ''-Mr Lamb's experience, there-' be.at asaet to. tlie' ' electrical - machinery mppUtakxm. _ _ i » aomething yet to be 2 ''nrfitttßSny ,tlni'ii - and .-ierianva^,'re^rds:'appearance, but tlie -.//rajpaf i riag .-~.fliljMriiig t I-aad tlie i'my of machine, r timlß -m' shop give* a., visitor .a fiigitifrugMw«rf ita completeness and 'L bmir Iron* =oli "association —<fcdaiV9 y "inty'iok:iUiat caa oe u dom ,anywbere .-n wifetli'" "• llftillffriill^r^Vf" a jLyjiL r .:;u h-p.-ca* engine,~and a-

is ,in. the shop only te)-U(d.' There arc 'four ijtSsfiSfie p^^^^^^pieti^^Tbe.;thM'iimWowth- •" •" »oi.?a^stcam''''lmbhmii" .ml, lecaise*it feT*driven- by V jp"iMWi'u #lsolla pervinch of air,is ]>ct- - thJ^amTprcwure 'jWciiMlir p iteam Tiawmer ' «f jM*^rater. v wtuch- »rw 1 tfcaoptrators, while leaks of air do no - h|n jji Our , representative' -..* was - ' itti i jiril this' tiinl l beat out.. a piece ~tf - tup^r^le^hxjrtf- " old-t» rU '" Wk >"Vh«*wJ»w*S. 6f ..arms an hour of heavy 4 trf-v ltii M;d»)cik,;»«d. ignorjug.'.al-' 4 oorf r , ar seems almost as a .collie 'dog: • The' air ;.t'wWck. Operate* it is compressed by a Mdliw, ;which deterred- special -men-. >: t*oa,.farcau.v it was wholly made: 'iu Timatu. -The patterns we re'made by ' Mr W?Parr, wn., the framiug,, .Hj- . vhnl; inserted cylinder; fast and louse pulleya, wero cant by the late Mr John Storrier, add the crank shaft- was forg- ' ed and|findwi'M the oM'thop? It is •-» good example of what can be done fbermffourt r of the - whence * the potntidjtpoTcr is distributed by pipes, to the hqg forging .hammer »bore meti- /«■ to a iMiunuitic tools. /SjThesc, poeunAljc biaii iic littfe mfei;. One called a ".chipping '' a hammer and chisel. coniwidth of chisel being attachable. fWf - course "one 'does not' waut m wide-aisel for use on-iron or steel.)

Tlm> toolhas within it a lilliptitiau - • bammer ind engine reaembling in principle big forging hammer. 1 • Its "ftroki? 1 is almutt micrwcapiciilly ■ ■hw£,batitis ancuuntably. rapid, The v lonietliing, anil the operatoe aini&pplT » steady prtssure upon il, lAifjpf■innrii nf this continuous prcs- ■ measure of the uncountable ; tool from tlw'steel ; ;an r m«i»'Btjtlw> pressure prevents, all ▼tnblesfKoil, anil , tile chine) seems to - calmly.,/itit through the metal as a « knife* through tliwsc - Hie strokes are - Mnrerallr-ao 'minute that tbe ehip rcnortd Md 'tbc cut surface are: iwrfent- . .hnoowitilKfo, are no marks of indi- - delivered. A somewhat *' ioiilir'topl isa riveter, whose weight • »»gge»t»\.tho desirability. of aluigin£ it . whenpdwible*. . Tho'iiiobfc.valnabk; ;of theaet/hoiro ver, is "a* pneumatic drill, » affair, which can be ' med anyiftiere witliin- the range, of. the iexi bio* air-sn pply pipe. The drill ii - four little gems of actaqc;" eafeines workihg -oh one ' tiny ■■■■■ eraak fut jor . «Joir,

ootfrator. Tlie dctaclicd boiler-mak-"er * shop is fitted with a large forge Hor: healing plates, the blast supplied •from the fan in the engineer s shop. Anvils-and all other, necessary httings .place or being fixed. Two special ;heaw castings hare 'been procured 3Sm - Port ' Chalmers /or shaping the hepvy/plates for repairing dredge buckets. -Eacli bHcket weighs a ton or mnrgj-anJ a little tramway is to be run into the shop for Jheir more convenient handling. The pattern-mater's department, . nnder the same roof, is yet to bo; fitted with a; lathe , (ar gas engine is-there to drive it), and n large collection patterns on shelve*: some 'of tfieiii :c«riously" ,comiiJcx,J\ will 'at <mce shop loiot" "old'estalH lisbcd*. Pair and Co. arc well pre-. irig contraction and repair work, land and marine, and .it is.,to .be. hoped- that; tteii>.plai»fc~wfll. be well employed, in IfSKi inspects, ? for even with use of machinery.-?'' ?> V s