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.

If you know something about any of these business please add a comment. You can do this without having to sign up for anything and can be anonomous if you prefer.



Friday, September 10, 2010

Massey-Harris Co Ltd





This is 60 Willis Street

And despite what it says now it was the Massey-Harris Co Ltd Store, the Massey-Harris part has been chipped off leaving only the Store part cast in stone, however if you look closely in this photo which is the other end of the building you can make out the original inscription
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Massey-Harris is now what we know as Massey Ferguson most famous these days for farm equipment, however I did find this on my travels
From the Otago Witness 1907

So I will leave it to you to decide if this store was full of bicycles or farm equipment
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