ASKTOM Glass and Glazing Hardware Supplies Online Store
This online store aims to bring top quality glass and glazing hardware supplies to the Do It Yourself and the DIY home handyman. We bring products that are normally limited to those in the trade and now direct to the end consumer.
If you are looking for a product that you cant find on this site, please contact me and I will try and find it for you.
Tom Lendrum
I have over 40 years experience in the Glass Industry. I entered the Glass Industry, working for Auckland Glass Co. Hobson St.Auckland city, as a packer, then moved to a lift operator (the building had four floors, glass had to be moved between different floors) after about six months became a delivery driver (after a little road accident) was transferred into the sales office.
Auckland Glass Co. moved from Hobson St. to St Georges Bay Rd. Parnell. I was now Sales Supervisor with five staff. (Left and went to work for Smith and Smith Glass Co. in Onehunga, as a Sale Representative.
In 1981 I was asked to open a new branch in Silverdale (north of Auckland) with a staff of three. I had become a Branch Manager.
In 1985 was transferred to the Wairau North Shore branch, with a staff of twenty-one.
In 1995 along came independence from the corporate world of demand, reports, staff, targets, endless managers meetings - always having to better budgets, endure office politics and others egos. I left, and started out in the world of self-employment - bringing it's own challenges.
