Looking back at 50 years travelling the Auckland tramway routes from 1906-1956
Maker and role
Auckland Transport Board, Other contributor
Graham Stewart, Cameraman
Object detail
Accession number
03-927
Production period
Description
Section 1: The early days (two versions of Auckland on wheels, the first with music and labels (4 minutes), the second without sound, possibly the extended unedited footage (18 minutes)) -- Section 2: The early fifties (colour with black and white sequences of trams, cars, trolley buses, roadworks, signs, beach, boats, fishing, school children, poorts, traversers, tower trucks, removing tracks, construction of new head office, opening with N. B. Spencer, Daimler parts arriving in Auckland, May Road and Onehunga depots, interior cleaning of buses using extraction cleaner, bus washer, overhead trolley wiring with towers, track removal and road restoration, decorated trams for Golden Jubilee celebration (1902-1952) (69 minutes), set of news items (33 minutes) covering the running of the original electric trams in Christchurch, KA 945 and KA 942 travelling up the Raurimu Spiral, footage of the Baroon, Toroa and Kestrel, an Airbus that almost crashed, Catalina flying boat with a guard of honour of World War II Harvards, footage of the Toroa and Kestrel including stocking the boilers and the running engines).
Media/Materials
Physical description
1 videocassette (124 minutes) : mostly silent, colour with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.
Other title
Auckland on wheels
Credit line
Auckland Transport Board et al. Looking back at 50 years travelling the Auckland tramway routes from 1906-1956, 03-927. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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