Spotlight on the Heritage Collection
Showing items tagged as transport.
24 June 2013
Maps like this make the hard graft of settlers seem deceptively simple. This battered reproduction of a plan originally drafted by the surveyor Harry Skeet in 1895, shows the Town of Purangi and Suburban Sections in a neat, ordered and ‘civilised’...
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08 November 2010
This sturdy cane basket is a woven reminder of New Zealand’s changing road safety standards.
It was used by Ian and Dorene Vickers to carry their children Alison, Susan, Guy and Jeff during the 1960s. Ian remembers it worked very well, as when the...
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13 November 2009
Giant cheques might be a feature of modern corporate shindigs but it was this folding mahogany box that publicly sealed the deal for New Plymouth's tram tracks in 1914.
The management of the North Eastern Steel Company, of Middlesbrough, were...
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