Dispatch & Garlick

Dispatch & Garlick Ltd is a mechanical engineering company specialising in dairy, water and wastewater systems in Greymouth, New Zealand.

Up to the 25th anniversary, Dispatch completed a total of more than 8,000 ft (2,400 m) of water pipes for the Humphrey's Gully Company, 100 tonnes of girders for the Otira Gorge Bridge, ten-head stamper batteries, sets of joints and crossings for the NZ Railways.

Dave McMillan, Managing Director of RA Garlick Ltd. and his business partner Francis Zampese bought the buildings and facilities of Dispatch Engineering Ltd. in 1995.

In 1995, Dispatch & Garlick Ltd was founded reflecting the history of Dispatch and the customer base of RA Garlick Ltd.[2] The company has currently(2008) approximately 50 employees in various fields of mechanical engineering, including a foundry with an induction furnace for 500 kg gray cast iron, carbon steels and alloy steels, a workshop for models, sheet metal work and pressure vessels of all kinds and an X-ray system for nondestructive material testing.

The two-cylinder winch motor powered a cable drum via a crankshaft, which also drove the 30 degrees downwardly inclined intermediate shaft via a bevel gear.