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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Turnbull And Jones

Turnbull And Jones, Electrical Engineers and Contractors; Showrooms, 223 Cashel, Street; Workshops, Oxford Terrace, Christchurch; Offices, Wellington and Dunedin, Mr. C. A. Seager, Manager of the Christchurch branch. Agents for Brown, Boveri and Co., Baden, Switzerland, for all Polyphase Power Plants; Ateliers Mecaniques. Vevy, Switzerland, for all classes of turbines; Crompton and Co., Limited, London, for dynamos, motors, are lamps, and instruments; Henley's Cable Co., Limited, London, for all classes of cable and wire; Edison, Swan and Co., London, glow lamps; Sturtevant Co., United States of America, engines, fans. The show-room in Cashel Street is fitted up with a show plant, consisting of B.H.P. gas engines (Crossley Bros. Special Electrical Lighting Type) each driving a 160 light dynamo of page 312 eight-candle power. The workshops on Oxford Terrace employ thirty hands, and are under the management of Mr. Cunnington, whose abilities as a designer and first-class mechanic in electrical and mechanical work are well known. The firm makes a specialty of lighting private residences, and numerous mansions in Canterbury are now supplied with electrical light appliances erected by the firm. At present (1902) the Christchurch branch is erecting an electrical passenger lift for the D.I.C. is Christchurch; this is the first lift of the kind imported into the colony, although several electrical lifts for goods have been erected. Previous to 1897 Christchurch possessed only one plant for the generation of electricity, but since the International Exhibition of 1896, when Mr. Seager demonstrated and exhibited the superiority of electric lighting, wonderful progress has been made in lighting the city, and Christchurch now possesses, in numerous private and public buildings, some of the finest electrical light plants in New Zealand. At the Queen's Jubilee illuminations only 250 lights were exhibited, but during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall in 1901, over 7000 were in use.