Cast In Stone: Spencer and Dunkley

Introduction

Imagine a time when life was so certain that when you built a building for your business you were confident enough in the future that you put the name of the business into the very fabric of the building.

This is not a time of mergers and takeovers of globalisation and restructure, this is when life was more local and certain.

There are a number of such buildings around and so this blog is an attempt to record some of them and more importantly a bit of the history of the business which by and large are no longer with us.

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Monday, August 16, 2010

Spencer and Dunkley

This is 68 Vogel St

Spencer & Dunkley and were general cartage agents who also provided storage it would seem.

The firm lives on in some ways as it is part of Owens Transport via amalagamation in the 1980 with Brambles Burnett Limited which had previously absobed Spencer & Dunkley.

While we tend to think of cartage in terms of trucks here is a great picture of the Horse Team from Spencer & Dunkley http://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/100-years-ago/76362/st-helens-maternity-hospital-celebrates-4-years

The firm was also providing freight forwarding services via the Union Steam Ship Company who's offices are further down the street.