The Atlas Story

The Atlas Story

The Atlas Story

The Atlas Story

The Atlas Story

The Atlas Story

The Atlas Story

The Atlas Story

The Atlas Story

Mason Struthers & Co. Ltd store, Colombo Street

15 December 1969

Interior of the 1st floor of Mason Struthers & Co. Ltd on the corner of Colombo and Litchfield Streets. Two members of staff are on the shop floor, which is decorated for Christmas, with Hoover vacuum cleaners and Atlas ovens on display.

Creator: Christchurch Star

Area: Central City / Central Christchurch - South

Source: Christchurch Star Archive

Reference ID: CCL-StarP-00241A

Uploaded by: Christchurch City Libraries

Copyright status: In copyright

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Stove, BS3 Atlas range

6 June 1961

Close-up of a newly launched BS3 Atlas range electric stove with saucepan on one of the elements.

Creator: Christchurch Star

Area: Central City / Central Christchurch - South

Source: Christchurch Star Archive

Source: View in Canterbury Stories

Reference ID: CCL-StarP-00162A

Uploaded by: Christchurch City Libraries

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Elvaston on Colombo Street

1900

People sitting on the porch of Elvaston on Colombo Street in Cashmere.
Contributor's note: "This is Elvaston, a grand old house at 40 (later 42) Colombo Street. My great-grandfather John Lee Scott and family owned it from approximately 1890 and the family lived there until approximately 1930. In more recent years it was owned by Miss Audrey Chisnall who kept it largely in an original state. It has now been demolished due to earthquake damage. The Scott family named it Elvaston after Elvaston County Park in Derbyshire from whence they had come to New Zealand in 1870."

Area: South / Cashmere

Source: Entry in the 2013 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt

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Reference ID: CCL-PH13-Elvaston

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Scott family portrait

1900

Family portrait of John Lee Scott and eight females including wife Elizabeth and daughters Katie, Betty and Nell, at Elvaston in Colombo Street.
Contributor's note: "A family photo taken at Elvaston, 40 Colombo Street in 1900. John Lee Scott is pictured with his wife and three of their daughters, Katie, Betty and Nell and other young relatives. It is of the family of my great grandfather John Lee Scott who came from Derby to Christchurch in 1870 with his wife Elizabeth. He and a younger brother George bought a railway foundry in Durham Street through to Manchester Street and founded Scott Bros Foundry in 1872, using the Atlas symbol after the Atlas Engineering Works in Derby where he was an iron pattern maker and engineer."

Area: South / Cashmere

Source: Entry in the 2013 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt

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Reference ID: CCL-PH13-Family-Scott

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Scott Brothers, Ltd., factory

21 September 1970

Interior of the Scott Brothers Ltd factory showing the conveyor belt system that carries various parts of the range to and from where the porcelain enamelling process takes place. Several workers are present on the factory floor.

Creator: Christchurch Star

Area: Central City / Central Christchurch - Southeast

Source: Christchurch Star Archive

Source: View in Canterbury Stories

Reference ID: CCL-StarP-00167A

Uploaded by: Christchurch City Libraries

Copyright status: In copyright

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Atlas thermowave ovens

17 August 1978

A worker stood next to a line of Atlas thermowave ovens ready to be exported to Australia.

Creator: Christchurch Star

Area: Central City / Central Christchurch - South

Source: Christchurch Star Archive

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Reference ID: CCL-StarP-00168A

Uploaded by: Christchurch City Libraries

Copyright status: In copyright

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Ovens being tested at Scott Brothers Ltd.

21 September 1970

A line of electricians with ovens in the Scott Brothers Ltd factory testing them using a switchboard ahead of them leaving the factory for general sale.

Creator: Christchurch Star

Area: Central City / Central Christchurch - Southeast

Source: Christchurch Star Archive

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Reference ID: CCL-StarP-00172A

Uploaded by: Christchurch City Libraries

Copyright status: In copyright

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Pensotti planer at Scott Brothers Ltd.

21 September 1970

Unmanned Pensotti planer machine inside the Scott Brothers Ltd factory. The machine can handle work up to 14ft long and is used for electric range production.

Creator: Christchurch Star

Area: Central City / Central Christchurch - Southeast

Source: Christchurch Star Archive

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Reference ID: CCL-StarP-00173A

Uploaded by: Christchurch City Libraries

Copyright status: In copyright

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Sketch of Scott Brothers' Atlas works, Manchester Street

Circa 1885

George and John Lee Scott founded the Scott Brothers Atlas Engineering and Manufacturing Works which covered one acre in Manchester Street. The chimney, 80 feet high, was the tallest in Christchurch. In 1885 one hundred hands worked at the plant. When trains were introduced to New Zealand in the 1860s, the locomotives were imported. In the 1880s the government decided that the machines should be built in the colony. Against stiff opposition, Scott Brothers, succeeded in capturing the contract.

Area: Central City / Central Christchurch - South

Source: Illustrated guide to Christchurch and neighbourhood / M. Mosley, after p. 164.

Reference ID: CCL-KPCD12-0069

Uploaded by: Christchurch City Libraries

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