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Lamson Engineering NZ Ltd
Since 1908 the name Lamson has been synonymous with cash and document distribution systems. Lamson Engineering was established in New Zealand 100 years ago, and is a subsidiary of : Lamson Concepts Pty Limited. Today's distribution systems have been developed to utilize modern technological advances, and offer the best possible range of applications and systems efficiency.
In the last decade many established companies expanded their activities to cover a wider base, utilizing common management and marketing skills. In the same vein, Lamson have diversified and are also involved in small parts storage systems and materials distribution equipment.
The principal product areas in which Lamson specialise are: ~ : ~
Engineering Division
Telelift: a high capacity automated distribution system using self propelled electric cars travelling along a network of extruded aluminium track.
Air Tubes: high speed pneumatic tube system using carriers to carry cash, documents or medical samples, from station to station within a complex.
Service Lifts: designed to meet the specific requirements of our customers, with floor areas up to 1 metre square and motive power not exceeding 750 watts.
Trolleyguard: a patented electronic system that stops the removal of shopping trolleys from retail sites and dramatically reduces all trolley-related expenses.
Storage Systems
Plastic Bins: moulded in tough polypropylene, available in six sizes and four bright colours. Limited sizes also available in grey.
Van Shelving: frames, shelves and bins for the efficient utilization of storage space inside service vehicles.
Design and manufacture is generally undertaken locally, backed up by our links with our parent company and well established overseas companies who are recognized leaders in their particular fields. These associations provide a sound and formidable base for Lamson's activities, a base which over the years has seen our company accumulate a long and impressive business history of dedicated expertise.
Lamson History
Lamson was established in New Zealand on the 24 April 1908 as 'The Lamson Despatch Company of New Zealand limited'. This was later changed to the current Lamson Engineering NZ Ltd.
The idea of a “store service system” originated in the United States in 1879. Drapery store owner, William Stickney Lamson, became aware of the time and effort wasted by shop assistants taking customers’ money to cashier and retuning with change. William Lamson realised that there had to be a better way.
Early ideas involved tying cash and bills in a handkerchief and “throwing” it to the cashier which proved to be unsuccessful to a great extent. The end result of his effort was the Ball System, where a hollow ball containing the money rolled on an inclined track from the shop assistants’ counter to the cashier. The cashier also had an inclined track that rolled the change back to the assistants’ counter.
The move across the Atlantic of Lamson’s “Ball System” was instigated by a Mr. John Kelly who obtained the rights in the United Kingdom to Lamson’s invention. In 1885, from a small private hotel in Craven Street, London, the Lamson Consolidated Store Service Company commenced trading. By 1889 hundreds of station “Ball Systems” were operating in the UK.
Another invention called the “Rapid Wire System” was later introduced which automated the “Ball System” to a certain degree. For the next 50 years Lamson’s “Rapid Wire System” or as it was affectionately known, “Flying Fox” would zoom across ceiling spaces of stores throughout Australia and New Zealand. Many a small child lugged along by Mum on a shopping safari, was fascinated by these “Flying Foxes”.
Lamson systems have been part of the changing pace of New Zealand business for 100 years. They have been an integral part of the nation’s retail, hospitals, and other commercial and non-commercial sector. Thousands of Lamson systems were installed throughout New Zealand and Australia, some original systems like the National Library in Canberra installed in 1968 still work today. Also a working system can be seen at the Cambridge museum. As times change, Lamson is more than confident that the products and services they have, and those still in the research and development phase, will continue to carry the proud tradition.
For More Lamson History.
Cash Railway
Antique Lamson Cash Carriers
Other Sites of Interest
Wikipedia
US Department of Transportation
Capsule Pipelines
Tube Express USA
Auckland Central Police Tube System
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