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Chambers Motors Ltd: 'A body building shop'. Hogg/Belfast.

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 13 older comments, and then…
  • derangedlemur said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambers_Motors
  • John Spooner said:
    In August 1905 Messrs Chambers & Co were described as having "of late devoted themselves with marked success to this new department, and claim to be the first motor car builders in Ireland" (Belfast News-Letter - Friday 11 August 1905) By 1907 they had changed to their "new title, Chamber Motors Limited" (Northern Whig - Thursday 22 August 1907) who "were the pioneers of motor-car manufacture in Ireland, and are still the only firm whore cars are wholly made in this country. Staring some eleven years ago in Cuba Street as general engineers, they rapidly won a reputation with their wiring machines, which are used by nearly all the large aerated water manufacturers and brewers in Great Britain and Ireland, and numbers of which are annually shipped for export. " (Northern Whig - Thursday 22 August 1907). I kow of several motor manufacturers which were originally bicycle makers (Singer, Rover, Humber) but this is the only one I've heard of which made brewing equipment.
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    Based on the title of this accompanying photo the photographer was A.R. Hogg. The NMNI has a couple of photos of his of Chambers Motor Cars: 3-Seater with People; Empty 3-Seater.
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    John Spooner Also Pancake machines apparently!
  • John Spooner said:
    We can see from the photo what it looks like, but from the article in the Northern Whig, we can get an idea of the sound and smell (1907 new car smell).
    From here [the engine shed] one passes into the bodywork shed where carpenters are busy planing and hammering, and upholsterers are hard at work, while a dozen or so of bodies - some with brougham tops, others with dainty cape hoods, all smelling of paint and varnish - stand ready to be placed on the chassis.
    (Northern Whig - Thursday 22 August 1907).

Bedroom in "The Old Shebang", Cuba Street, Wellington, ca 1883

from National Library NZ on The Commons

  • Andrea said:
    Home of the photographer William Williams.
  • Hannah Young said:
    My teacher of Mandarin school shanghai( www.mandarininn.cn/ ) asked me wrote a poem about the light , so I wrote that : The cricket's chirp and the patter of rain come to me through the dark, like the rustle of dreams from my past youth.

"The Old Shebang", Cuba Street, Wellington, ca 1883

from National Library NZ on The Commons

  • pabIo said:
    Wow, Cuba Street doesn't look like that today. ;)
  • National Library NZ on The Commons said:
    Nope, not a bit! Courtney
  • Andrea said:
    Home of the photographer William Williams, "shebang" means "house".

"The Old Shebang", Cuba Street, Wellington, ca 1883

from National Library NZ on The Commons

  • Br3nda said:
    and today:
    Cuba Street
  • National Library NZ on The Commons said:
    AWESOME!! Thanks Br3nda! cheers, Courtney
  • Lucy said:
    wonderful to see these together
  • dizzy fire said:
    Fantastic!
  • Hannah Young said:
    Like this poem said: I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passerby stops for a moment, nods to me and goes. Mandarin school shanghai (www.mandarininn.cn/ )