Goggles
Object detail
Accession number
2006.329.2
Description
Owned and worn by Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand for riding her Honda scooter.
Goggles: have grey plastic flexible structure, foam padding at back to protect the face, clear plastic lense, white elastic strap reaching from one side of goggles to other, silver metal buckles at both sides and two silver metal rivets at centre front for attaching lense.
Goggles: have grey plastic flexible structure, foam padding at back to protect the face, clear plastic lense, white elastic strap reaching from one side of goggles to other, silver metal buckles at both sides and two silver metal rivets at centre front for attaching lense.
Brief History
Scooter goggles used by Helen Clark.
Description of use of scooter provided by Helen Clark:
'... this motorcycle was brought new by me in early 1971 for around $349 as I recall. It was purchased from my savings and with the aid of $100 from my parents for my 21st birthday. It was my first vehicle, and was used to ride from my Grey Lynn flat into the university every day. I was knocked off it twice by cars - once in Dominion Rd., and another time in Williamson Avenue.
I had stopped using it by the time I went into Parliament in 1981, but Peter continued to use it right up until the late 1990s to ride to the university.'
Description of use of scooter provided by Helen Clark:
'... this motorcycle was brought new by me in early 1971 for around $349 as I recall. It was purchased from my savings and with the aid of $100 from my parents for my 21st birthday. It was my first vehicle, and was used to ride from my Grey Lynn flat into the university every day. I was knocked off it twice by cars - once in Dominion Rd., and another time in Williamson Avenue.
I had stopped using it by the time I went into Parliament in 1981, but Peter continued to use it right up until the late 1990s to ride to the university.'
Marks
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Media/Materials
Credit Line
Goggles, 2006.329.2. The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
![Motorcycle [Honda 50 Scooter]; Honda Motor Company Ltd; 1971](https://collection.motat.nz/records/images/medium/19816/c60b0bc58171da4bb82a29b47d9de06ca2c61621.jpg)
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