In 1971, Coulls Somerville Wilkie (a Wellington based stationery and publishing company) merged with Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. to form Whitcoulls Ltd. This Palmerston North based factory was located at 999 Tremaine Avenue.
Argosy Studio (Argos Ind...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: 999 Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: February 3, 1972
In 1971, Coulls Somerville Wilkie (a Wellington based stationery and publishing company) merged with Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. to form Whitcoulls Ltd. This Palmerston North based factory was located at 999 Tremaine Avenue.
Argosy Studio (Argos Ind...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: 999 Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: February 3, 1972
Coulls Somerville Wilkie was an intermediary name for a Wellington based stationery and publishing company. In 1971 it merged with Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. to form Whitcoulls Ltd. This Palmerston North based factory was located at 999 Tremaine Ave...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: 999 Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: September 1962
Coulls Somerville Wilkie was an intermediary name for a Wellington based stationery and publishing company. In 1971 it merged with Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. to form Whitcoulls Ltd. This Palmerston North based factory was located at 999 Tremaine Ave...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: 999 Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: September 1962
Coulls Somerville Wilkie was an intermediary name for a Wellington based stationery and publishing company. In 1971 it merged with Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. to form Whitcoulls Ltd. This Palmerston North based factory was located at 999 Tremaine Ave...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: 999 Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: September 1962
In 1971, Coulls Somerville Wilkie (a Wellington based stationery and publishing company) merged with Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. to form Whitcoulls Ltd. This Palmerston North based factory was located at 999 Tremaine Avenue.
Argosy Studio (Argos Ind...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: 999 Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: February 3, 1972
Coulls Somerville Wilkie was an intermediary name for a Wellington based stationery and publishing company. In 1971 it merged with Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. to form Whitcoulls Ltd. This Palmerston North based factory was located at 999 Tremaine Ave...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: 999 Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: September 1962
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: January 1968
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: January 1968
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 August 1958, page 8: "The Acting-Canadian Trade Commissioner (Mr. J. MacNaught) is seen here inspecting a hosiery factory during his stay in the city. On his extreme ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 27, 1958
Three women sit behind sewing machines at the Libertyland Factory in Palmerston North. R W H Symington and Co. (N Z) Ltd first established themselves in New Zealand in 1934. Specialising in corsetry and underwear manufacturing, a small factory was...
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: Corner of Tremaine and Roy Street
Date: 1950s
An image of the Libertyland Factory in Palmerston North. R W H Symington and Co. (N Z) Ltd first established themselves in New Zealand in 1934. Specialising in corsetry and underwear manufacturing, a small factory was built in Palmerston North in ...
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: Corner of Tremaine and Roy Street
Date: 1950s
Three women sit behind sewing machines at the Libertyland Factory, Palmerston North. R W H Symington and Co. (N Z) Ltd first established themselves in New Zealand in 1934. Specialising in corsetry and underwear manufacturing, a small factory was b...
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: Corner of Tremaine and Roy Street
Date: 1950s
The Longburn Slaughtering and Freezing Company Ltd was established as a farmer's co-operative in 1890. Sited at Longburn, just south of Palmerston North, it later became known as the Longburn Freezing Works. It closed in 1986.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1946
The Palmerston North Abattoir was situated in Awapuni for 63 years. Opened in December 1906, the works were operated by the Manawatu Meat Company until 1917, when the Borough Council purchased them. They remained under Council control until thei...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Maxwells Line, Palmerston North
Date: 1907
This image comes from a collection of unidentified negatives taken by H M Griffiths in the early 1900s, probably 1910-1920. Many of these negatives are labelled as having been taken in Tokomaru, but many have no information with them. They were do...
Creator: H M Griffiths
Place: Tokomaru
Date: 1910 to 1920
In 1984, this was Whitcoulls Production Division.
Creator: G Hope
Place: 999 Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: February 1954
Mutton chain gang workers with carcasses at Longburn Freezing Works. The Longburn Slaughtering and Freezing Company Ltd was established as a farmer's co-operative in 1890. Sited at Longburn, just south of Palmerston North, it later became known as...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Longburn, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1946
The machinest, Norman Pedersen, making a Haldura mattress at an unknown mattress making business in Palmerston North.
Creator: K H Shea
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1939
This photograph shows the interior of Jacquard Hosiery Mills Limited, including a shot of two men working on the knitting machines. Published in the Manawatu Standard 12 February 1968. In the 1967 Palmerston North phone book the factory is listed ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 601 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1968
This photograph shows the interior of Jacquard Hosiery Mills Limited, including a close up shot of the sewing and knitting machines. Published in the Manawatu Evening Standard 12 February 1968 In the 1967 Palmerston North phone book the factory is...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 601 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1968
This photograph shows the interior of Jacquard Hosiery Mills Limited, including the knitting machinery. The Jacquard Hosiery Mills Ltd, were knitters of underwear and outerwear, that went under the brand name 'Jacquard. The mill was situated at 60...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 601 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1968
Jacquard Hosiery Mills Ltd was located at 609 Featherston Street. This photograph shows the goods delivery entrance.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 609 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1960 to circa 1969
The Hume Pipe Company was located in Featherston Street.
Creator: G F Framjee
Place: Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1939
This Palmerston North brick factory was established by R.D. Edwards, who owned and operated the business c1902 - 1919, when it was sold to Brick and Pipes Ltd.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 618 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1923
The Jacquard Hosiery Mills was located at 609 Featherston Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 609 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
The Kiwi Bacon Factory was established adjacent to the Longburn Freezing Works c1925, after small beginnings in Grey Street, Palmerston North. At one time it was one of the largest bacon factories in New Zealand and supplied products both national...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Longburn, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1946
This photograph shows carcasses awaiting processing. Situated at Longburn, this facory started operating around 1917. The firm began business in Grey Street, Palmerston North.
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Longburn, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
Nail making machines in Eclipse Wire Products factory. The company was established in Christchurch in 1920, and a branch opened in Palmerston North in 1925. Palmerston North subsequently expanded to become the head office, with factory, office and...
Creator: Manawatu Guardian
Place: 45 Grey Street, Palmerston North
Date: August 6, 1975
The Manawatu Flour mills were located at 291 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North. The business was begun on this site by Richter, Nannnestad and Jensen in 1878.
Creator: G F Framjee
Place: Corner of Albert Street and Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 1939