Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-11-21
local ann State Nems.
Local Industries.
Lambard's Foundry, Machine shop, and
Car Mandatory.

(0r WanuToctOry.
Not satisfied with his limited accommoda'
tons at the east end Of the railroad bridge 10
this city, Col. Thomas Lambard last spring
purchased seven and one-half acres OF adJa-
cent land, extending from the railroad track
10 the spacious lot Of Rev. Mr.. Quinby's, and
extending about forty rods from Willow street
and adoinipp the homestead ofthe Hon. Dan
iel Williams. On this large lot the enterpris-
ing proprietor has erected since May last, u
foundry, machine and wood shop, and other
connecting and necessary buildings. The
''lay of the land" is particularly well adapted
10 the works which have been erected, and
the other day as We made an examination Of
the premises, we were impressed with the fact
that nature and the trained eye Of man had
agreed 10 making the selection of location.
The lot gradually slopes from the east to the
railroad track, and as the three or four build
ings that have been erected are connected in
a business way, the transfer of articles manu-
featured, or to be manufactured, from one
building to another, is very easy.
The 'setting up" car shop is on branch Of
the railroad track south. Here the car frames
which have all been prepared and are in
readiness, are set up, bolted, rut on trucks,
and wheeled out into the paint shop. After
a half dozen or more are completed, they are
switched on to the main track, hitched to the
end of freight train, and started for their
destination. Lambsrd's cars are acknowl-
edged to be the best used on any of the rail-
roads; orders for their manufacture come
thick and fast from the leading corporations
The capacity Of this shop is two cars per day.
On Saturday the workmen were putting the
finishing touches to a car that had been but
six hours in building.
The drst new building east of the setting
up shop, is the wood and machine shop. The
wood shop, where all the wood work entering
into the manufacture Of cars will be done, is
in the south end, and is 40 by so feet. In the
other end Is the machine shop, &C by As feet;
brick partition is to separate the two shops,
thus greatly le.sening the liability to fire.
An immense boiler of fifty horse power is
being placed in the machine shop. which will
furnish sufficient motive power to the entire
works, and pump water from the river, which
is close by, and with which the most perfect
connections have been made. These rooms
are large, airy, and must be most desirable
for the workmen. The machine shop is to
be fully prepared for the execution Of most if
not all kinds Of machine work. An iron
smoke stack, so feet high, surmounts the ma
chine shop. and is so securely braced that it
withstood the recent heavy gale without any
percepiibIe giving away, and is therefore
deemed perfectly safe. The second story is
in ono large room. $50 BY IS feet, and is
called the pattern loft. The buildings all
have slightly slopng roofs. This room will
be fitted up with shelves on which patterns
are to.be deposited and marked, ready for use
whenever wanted.
North of this building is the blacks NTH
shop, with three FORCES, and sand and clay
floor, rendering it comparatively fire proof.
This has facilities for turning out the iron
work for three cars day.
E+st of the machine and work shops is the
foundry proper, finely constructed build
ing. $50 BY 40 feet the upper side resting on
a bank wall, making the door Of the foundry
about ten feet lower than the land on the up.
per side. The floor in which the patterns are
to be laid is made of clay, rolled soidly, and
at great expense. There is a monster oven
for baking cores; blower to the furnace is
belted from the engine in the machine shop.
Water. iron, wood, clay, sand, in fact every
thing needed in the works, can be easily put
into the hands Of the workmen by means of
the tramwsys and miniature rail cars. Well
graded roads, built at considerable expense,
run between and around the buildings. All
the equipments. machinery, tools. ETC., In the
old foundry buildings near the residence of
Allen Lambar I'd, Esq, are to be removed to
the new building; and 1t is limited that the ia.
miliar stone and brick walls of the old works
will be removed, and the lot on which they
now stand graded and added to Mr.. Lam
bard's already beautiful and extensive
grounds. This change will make the prem
ises very attractive, and enlarge the river
view. The foundry IS of greater capacity
than present ueeds may demand, as it is the
intention OF the propri, tor soon to engage in
the extensive manufacture Of car wheels.
when every inch Of The room will be called
into requisition.
Above the foundry, with plenty of yard
room, 10 lumber shed, % by 100 feet, for
piling car lumber; . shed tor storing coal and
iron, 100 by ~ feet, and neat and commo-
dious double tenement house, forming pleas
ant homes for the fireman and truckman to
be employed on the premises.
OF course Col. Lambsrd's employees in the
foundry and elsewhere are longing for the
time to come when they can take possession
Of their new quarters; but this cannot be at
present. Orders for freights have accumu-
lated so rapidly that the proprietor has had to
abandon the idea of occupying the buildings
this fall. but intends to have the new works
In operation by the Hrst Of March next. The
event will be celebrated BY a grand inaugu-
ration ball in the pattern room.