Phoenix Foundry, Auckland
Phoenix Foundry, often printed as Phœnix, was an engineering company in Auckland from 1861 to 1952. By 1900 it was on the verge of bankruptcy, but also Auckland's largest engineering works, supplying a wide range of goods and often leading in the design of equipment used to exploit the country's resources, such as timber and flax mills, crushers for gold ore and locomotives, pumps, cement and gas works and steamers. The foundry started with engineer, George Fraser, and a handful of employees, but grew to employ hundreds and operated under several names, including Fraser and Tinne and George Fraser & Sons Ltd.
Phoenix Foundry, Auckland
1886 Stevens birds-eye view of dry dock and head office site on the corner of Albert and Custom St
1886 birds-eye view of Stanley St and Grafton Road. The largest buildings in the street were those of the Phoenix Foundry
1864 Phoenix Foundry in Stanley St
Northern Steamship Company
The Northern Steam Ship Company Ltd (NSS) served the northern half of the North Island of New Zealand from 1881 to 1974. Its headquarters, the Northern Steam Ship Company Building, remains in use on Quay St, Auckland as a bar.
The east coast Northern Steamship fleet at Auckland in 1922, during a strike.
Ngapuhi on The Northern Steam Ship Company's annual summer cruise at Kawau, about 1907
Auckland in 1903 Wakatere (left), Rotomahana (centre), Terranora (right)
Auckland Weekly News obituary