Horrell Engineering

Have found a key in the new store, possibly dropped Saturday morning.

🎉 HORRELL ENGINEERING SUPPLIES IS NOW OPEN!🔩🛠️

After plenty of planning, shifting stock and setting up shelves, our dedicated engineering supplies store is officially open for business!

You’ll find our huge range of fasteners, bearings, sprockets, chain, steel and engineering supplies all in one place. Most importantly, we’re open to everyone. Tradies, farmers, businesses, home handymen… come on in!

Opening the store is a pretty special way to mark 75 years of Horrell Engineering - celebrating where we’ve come from while investing in what comes next.

📍 126 Victoria Street, Ashburton

Come in, have a look around and say hello. We’d love to see you!

Horrell Engineering Supplies
*Masters of Fasteners* 🔩

You might spot a familiar face in this weekends Ashburton Guardian!

The Weekender is out now 🗞️

It’s maths week at school and our chief pulley painter decided to dress up as her Dad again - maybe the pink hats will have to become part of the uniform!

We will be closed for the day tomorrow (Friday), back on the tools at 8am Monday

Sign returns home After a series of fortunate coincidences, Netherby School has its original school sign back at its front gate. It was bought online. Principal Phil Wheeler said the sign, likely to be the original Ministry of Education school sign from 1959, has brought with it a feeling of nostalgia and excitement....

We’ll be closed this Friday for an extended Kings Birthday weekend break. We’ll be back on deck and ready to help from Tuesday!

📸 Flashback Friday – The Building

As part of our 75 year celebrations, this week we’re looking back at the building that has been home to Horrell Engineering since 1951.

Long before it became our workshop, the site had already built a strong engineering history of its own. Dating back to the 19th century, it originally operated as a blacksmith and wheelwright business under Childs & Sons. By the 1920s it had also become a garage, complete with a petrol bowser out the front.

Cliff purchased the property in 1951, using it as the base for the business while carrying out agricultural servicing and mobile repairs around Mid Canterbury. Over time the work gradually shifted more towards engineering and welding, and as the business grew, more and more precision machinery filled the workshop.

The building was extended and adapted over the years, but much of it still looks remarkably similar to how it did in the mid 1970s.

Now in 2026, after 75 years of Horrell Engineering, the old place has had a bit of a glow up with fresh paint, new signage, and the next chapter beginning with our engineering supplies store.

Some things change, and some things stay proudly the same.