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Kōrero: Scots

P. & D. Duncan’s engineering works, Christchurch

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P. & D. Duncan’s engineering works, Christchurch

Scottish people dominated the engineering and shipbuilding industries in all countries to which they migrated. Two pairs of Scottish brothers, the Burts in Dunedin and the Duncans in Christchurch, founded two of the country’s leading early foundries and engineering works.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Serials Collection

Reference: 1/1-019287; G

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John Wilson, Scots – Scots and the economy, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/203/p-d-duncans-engineering-works-christchurch (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Wilson, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.