New Zealand motorists' road guide for the North Island

Production date
1930
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Object detail

Accession number

PUB-2019-23.5

Description

Guide for motorists and motorcyclists traveling New Zealand with through routes, camping grounds, table of distances and sectional maps. Includes hints to motorists, government tourism bureaux and resorts, tour routes with maps, places en route, miles between, road surfaces and general descriptions, and advertisements.

"In this the tenth edition... will be found a series of maps and route diagrams designed to give the motorist or traveller a graphic idea of the road he desires to travel... maps of the larger cities have been prepared showing the principal thoroughfares of places of especial interest.
In the route diagrams the roads are shown with the junctions and cross roads so that the motorist may have before him all the time a notion of the geography of the districts he is travelling." - preface

Contents: foreword / index to advertisers / index to routes and road maps / reference index / list of automobile associations / hotels / camping places / table of distances / passage of cattle and stock / symbols for the purpose of traffic signs

Signature/Marks and Type

A. J. Harding Ltd Booksellers and Stationers 220 Queen St Auckland Ink Stamp

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper

Physical description

383 pages : maps, illustrations (black and white) ; 21.5 cm

Edition

10th

Other title

The New Zealand Motorists' Road Guide (North Island)

Credit line

1930. New Zealand motorists' road guide for the North Island, PUB-2019-23.5. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).