Grand old days of steam
Maker and role
W. W. Stewart, Author
Production date
1975
Object detail
Accession number
7687
Maker
Description
Signed by author. Signed on half title page by author, the Chief Designing Engineer and the District Mechanical Engineer Auckland Section of N.Z.Railways as part of the arrival ceremony of the K900 to MOTAT on December 20th, 1975.
Signature/Marks and Type
R. J. Gard Signature
W. [M.] Butcher Signature
W. W. Stewart Signature
The Chief Designing Engineer for N.Z.R. who designed the C, J and K classes [Gard] - Worked with Mr. Gard on the above designs [Foreman] - Assistant District Mechanical Engineer Auckland Section at the time the K900 entered service - later to become D.M.E. AK section [Butcher] - New Zealand's no. 1 railway historian & writer, painter of these numerous books on N.Z. railway history.
This book was signed by the above on the day & at the ceremony of the arrival of the K900 at the Museum of Tansport and Technology Western Springs 20 Dec 1975.
WW. Stewart was the person who nominated the letter 'K' to be the classification of this class of locomotive. Hand-written
W. [M.] Butcher Signature
W. W. Stewart Signature
The Chief Designing Engineer for N.Z.R. who designed the C, J and K classes [Gard] - Worked with Mr. Gard on the above designs [Foreman] - Assistant District Mechanical Engineer Auckland Section at the time the K900 entered service - later to become D.M.E. AK section [Butcher] - New Zealand's no. 1 railway historian & writer, painter of these numerous books on N.Z. railway history.
This book was signed by the above on the day & at the ceremony of the arrival of the K900 at the Museum of Tansport and Technology Western Springs 20 Dec 1975.
WW. Stewart was the person who nominated the letter 'K' to be the classification of this class of locomotive. Hand-written
Media/Materials
Physical description
125 p. : chiefly ill. (part colour) ; 27 cm.
ISBN/ISSN
0589009265
Credit line
W. W. Stewart. 1975. Grand old days of steam, 7687. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
Public comments
Thankyou George for your comment, and sharing your experiences of this wonderful publication
- Walsh Memorial Library, MOTAT posted one year ago.
I was lucky enough to meet Mr Gard at the Model Railway Club within MOTAT some years earlier. I had ordered W W Stewart's " When Steam was King" through the Club, and it arrived the day Mr Gard was visiting. This would have been around 1972. Mr Gard called me over when he saw me with my newly purchased book, took it from my hand, and opened it at a page well-known to him. He autographed the famous photograph entitled "The Fitters" of a K family locomotive being serviced at night, under a fairly dim light.. a loco which he was instrumental in designing. Quite a keepsake, I still have it today.
- George Gray posted one year ago.