BIG CONTRACT LET FOR NEW RAILWAY ASSEMBLY SHOPS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18013, 25 November 1926, Page 11

BIG CONTRACT LET FOR NEW RAILWAY ASSEMBLY SHOPS.

BUILDINGS AT HILLSIDE AND ADDINGTON WILL COST GOVT. £200,000. (Special to the "Star.”) WELLINGTON, November 24. Another stage in the railway workshops reorganisation was reached toda\-, when Cabinet considered eight tenders for the erection of new workshops at Hillside and Addington. The successful tenderer is J. W. M’Lellan, Dunedin, who named Sir Wm. Arrol, Ltd., an English firm, as suppliers of the steelwork. The contract price is about £200.000. Work is to be completed within fourteen moftths. Tenders also were received from W. Williamson. P. Graham and Co., Andersens, Ltd., and J. and W. Jamieson (Christchurch). C. F. Pulley and Hansford, Mills and Co. (Wellington) and Love Construction Co. (Dunedin). Workshop construction now in hand aggregates over half a million, the contract for Otahuhu being £150.000, and Petone £200,000, British steelwork being used in each case. The Hillside and Addington construction has to be included in one contract., pwing to the necessity of the work m the two centres being completed in strict accordance with a programme involving transfer of shops, so that locomotive work will be concentrated at Hillside, and. car and waggon erection at Addington. The contract provides for the construction at Hillside of twcr locomotive erecting shops, each 440 feet by 82 feet, alsoa boiler tube machine shop and paint shop, making another building 440 feet by 82 feet, a foundry 260 feet by 130 feet, steel waggon shop 200 feet by 130 feet, and stores 160 feet, by 82 feet, together with various structural alterations to adapt the existing buildings.

About 2200 tons of steel work, and 112,000 feet of glazing arc involved in the Hillside buildings.

Considerable alterations to the existing Addington shops are necessary and there is to be an addition to the car and new repair waggon shop of 140 feet by 165 feet. Another, new building for new and repair work, and carpenters’ shop, will be 400 feet by 132 feet, and a. wood mill 200 feet by 165 feet. The steel structural material used in Addington will be approximately 1300 tons, while glazing will take 32,000 square feet in windows, and 58.000 feet in roofs.