Dispatch & Garlick

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Dispatch & Garlick Ltd is a dairy machinery, water and wastewater systems engineering company based in Greymouth , New Zealand .

history

founding

The company was founded on August 5, 1873 as Dispatch Iron Works . The name is derived from a paddle steamer used in the port of Greymouth. The ironworks was owned by the Scottish engineer John Sewell, who exported Dispatch from England to New Zealand in 1869. As an engineer, he felt underutilized at Dispatch , so he carried out various technical activities and occasional repairs.

Ascent

The quartz mining boom around Reefton and the coal mines in Brunnerton resulted in a good order book right after the company was founded. For the required capital increase of the expanding company, the Dispatch Foundry Company Limited was founded in July 1875 with a starting capital of 12,000 pounds . The company was very successful, paying a dividend of 10% in 1877, which was maintained in subsequent years.

By the 25th anniversary, Dispatch had built a total of over 2,400 m (8,000 feet) of water pipes for the Humphrey's Gully Company, 100 ton girders for the Otira Gorge Bridge , ten-piece rammer batteries, joint kits and crossings for NZ Railways . At that time, Dispatch had an average of 60 employees.

A telephone with the telephone number 4 was installed in the foundry as early as 1906. In 1910 the foundry employed 12 casters, 23 fitters, 12 blacksmiths, 20 boilermakers, 2 model makers, 8 workers and 4 office workers. 9 trainees were employed in the workshop.

In 1975 the name was changed to Dispatch Engineering Ltd, which specialized in long timber rope winches, pressure vessels and gold sieves as well as general mechanical engineering and foundry work. Dave McMillan, Managing Director of RA Garlick Ltd. and his business partner Francis Zampese bought the buildings and facilities of Dispatch Engineering Ltd. in 1995.

Change of ownership

In the 1990s, at the start of the New Zealand Dairy Boom , dairy products were produced using the newly acquired facilities and buildings. In 1995 Dispatch & Garlick Ltd was founded to trace the history of Dispatch and the customer base of RA Garlick Ltd. meet.

The company currently (2008) employs around 50 people in various areas of mechanical engineering, including a foundry with an electric induction furnace for 500 kg of gray cast iron , nodular cast iron or cast steel , a well-equipped and staffed model workshop, a workshop for sheet metal processing and pressure vessels of all kinds. There is an assembly and machine hall with boring mills up to 3.6 m in diameter, for turning work up to 6 m in length or 3 m in diameter, as well as an X-ray system for non-destructive material testing . The workshop building, which has its own siding, consists of two 95 m long fields, each of which is served by a 10 t overhead traveling crane.

Locomotives

The steam locomotives built in the early 20th century were unusual in many ways. In the beginning, steam cable winches were manufactured, which were adapted for transport on wooden rails via a chain drive on the axles. Typically, a boiler was mounted on one end of a frame and a winch on the other end. The two-cylinder winch motor drove a cable drum via a crankshaft, which also drove an intermediate shaft inclined downwards by 30 degrees via a bevel gear. The power was transmitted to the axles via a gearbox with sliding bevel gears, with which different gear ratios could be selected, and a complicated bevel and spur gearbox. Because of this complexity, the average lifespan was only eleven years. Dispatch later developed rail tractors that made the company the market leader.

  • Early dispatch locomotive from 1904, from 1907 in Ngahere

  • Locomotive from 1913 of the Midland Sawmilling Co. in Greymouth-Camerons

  • No. 140 of 1913 by Westland Sawmilling Co., Camerons

  • Previously unidentified dispatch locomotive

  • No. W2D160 of 1915 for Perotti & Co. Mawheraiti

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Peter and Elizabeth Harford: The Dispatch Foundry & Dobson's Creek Water Race. December 31, 2011. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b History. Dispatch & Garlick Ltd., archived from the original on August 19, 2018 ; Retrieved September 1, 2019 (original website no longer available, older history website contains more information than the current one).
  3. ^ Stainless NZ: Dispatch and Garlick Ltd.
  4. ^ John Garner: New Zealand Geared Locomotives: Dispatch Foundry, Greymouth, Geared Steam Locomotives.

Coordinates: 42 ° 27 ′ 7.3 ″  S , 171 ° 12 ′ 28.6 ″  E