Driving Pulley for Waihi.

Progress, Volume V, Issue 7, 2 May 1910, Page 234

Driving Pulley for Waihi.

Made by Masefield & Co., Auckland. Tliis pulley is constructed of: si eel arms and rim, with cast iron boss. 12ft Bin in diameter, and 1 ( )m. crowned face It will

run 85 revolutions per minute, and will transmit 120 h.p. continuously, fixed on the crank shaft of a tandem compound engine driving a cross compound air compression. It is the largest pulley yet machined in the province, if not in the Dominion, being turned and bored in lathe at Masefield's Foundry. This class of work is a specialty with this firm, the previous largest being a castiron six-grooved driving wheel for the Progress Mines, Ltd., Reefton.

We have received notification that owing to increased business, Messrs Mervyn "W. Stevenson & Co., of Christchurch, have found it necessary to move into larger premises, situated in Hereford Street, next to the N.Z. Express Co., where information regarding the following firms.' products can be obtained: — Messrs. Thos. Firtli & Sans, Ltd., John Russel & Co., Ltd., James Hodgkinson, Ltd., The Lancashire Dynamo & Motor Co., Ltd., John Pickles & Son, F. Pratt & Co., Ltd., and John Cameron, Ltd., etc.