Traffic engineering
Wellington City Council. City Engineer's Office :[Map showing proposed new street syste...
Date: 1948
By: Wellington (N.Z.). City Council. City Engineer's Office
Reference: MapColl-832.4799gmbd/A/1948/Acc.13881
Description: Map of the new traffic system between Basin Reserve to Brooklyn Road, includes tunnels between Arthur and Bowen streets, the Railway Station, Waterloo and Jervois quays to Cable, Wakefield and Taranaki streets, Kent and Cambridge terraces. A proposed road from Buckle Street cutting across Basin Reserve is marked. Tory, Vivian, Cuba, Willis, Dixon, Manners, Mercer, Featherston, Bunny and Ballance streets are named, also Lambton Quay and The Terrace. Queen's Wharf is marked. Scale of original: Scale [1:3 960] Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 44.1 x 68.2 cml. on sheet 48.4 x 71.2 cm.
Wellington City Corporation. Town Planning Department :Central city traffic management ...
Date: 1977
From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Maps associated with architectural plans. 1906-1995].
By: Wellington (N.Z.). City Council
Reference: MapColl-832.4799gm/A/1977/Acc.46214
Description: Copy of a plan which covers the central part of Wellington from Grant Road to the wharves and south to Buckle Street. Shows location of proposed traffic signals, existing traffic signals, existing inner city bus routes and existing transport terminals. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, scale 1: 5 000, 46.5 x 81 cm.
Wellington Regional Council :Land use and transportation study. Aerial photographs of W...
Date: 1975
From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection
Reference: MapColl-WRC-17/1A-Acc.
Description: Photographs linked to transparency maps in folder 17/1 relating to traffic zoning and transport links. Shows Ngauranga Gorge 1912; Hutt Road ca 1930; Aotea Quay, 1938 and Jervois Quay ca 1940. Shows substantial physical obstacles which had to be overcome before the roading system could link the Region with the growing Central Business District of Wellington City. These obstacles included the rugged terrain at the Ngauranga Gorge and around the Wellington Harbour, the conflict between roading and public transport rights-of-way, and the limited flat land within the Central Business District itself. Quantity: 4 photograph(s) on one sheet in brown folder. Physical Description: b&w aerial photographs
Wainuiomata traffic control
Date: 1959-1960
From: Hutt County Council : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1293-550
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Wellington Regional Council :Land use and transportation study. Aerial photographs of W...
Date: 1880 - 1959
From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection
Reference: MapColl-WRC-17/1B-Acc.
Description: Photographs linked to transparency maps in folder 17/1 relating to traffic zoning and transport links. Shows tram drawn by horses (1880s); train lower Hutt (1910); Suburban bus, Wellington 1920 and trams, Wellington 1950s. Quantity: 4 photograph(s) on one sheet in brown folder. Physical Description: b&w aerial photographs
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :The Wellington City Council has given the green light ...
Date: 1970
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
Reference: B-137-086
Description: Shows a queue of motorists sitting at a traffic light. In the second scene workmen have taken the traffic light out of the ground. They tell the motorists to turn around because they're going to put the traffic light at the other end of the street and make the street one-way going in the other direction. Extended Title - Will this mean the end of long lines of motorists sitting - not knowing when the lights are going to change? Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper, 320 x 390mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.
Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and persona...
Date: 1955-1971
By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002
Reference: PA-Group-00375
Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.
Wellington Regional Council :Wellington Regional Land Transport Study. June 1975. [ms map]
Date: 1975
From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection
Reference: MapColl-WRC-17/1-Acc.
Description: Includes structure map with traffic zones and Design year public transport link networks Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) + 12 transparencies in brown folder. Physical Description: Ink on cellulite paper. Scale indeterminable. 59 x 48 cm.
Interview with John Vernon Robinson
Date: 22 May 1984
From: NZOHA New Zealand Computer Society Silver Jubilee Oral History Project
By: Robinson, John Vernon, 1926-2015
Reference: OHInt-0093/11
Description: John Robinson was born 31 Dec 1926 at Geraldine. Describes family background, childhood in South Canterbury, education, farming, university scholarship to Canterbury University. Discusses National Research Scholarship at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, PhD in Structural Engineering; work at the DSIR Dominion Physical Laboratory, part of the Concrete Research Section. Talks about secondment to Ministry of Works, Roxburgh, for practical experience; 1956 Foreign Student Summer Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discusses Ministry of Works, Central Experimental Laboratory, Gracefield, for practical engineering research using scale models. Describes first computer contact with the Whirlwind Computer at MIT, Ministry of Works close interest in the Treasury computer in 1959, involvement in development of government computing. Talks about advantages of computer for calculating and statistical work in traffic engineering, roading, other engineering applications. Recalls first programming course taken by IBM's Bruce Moon, computer as a tool in professional work. Speaks of first Treasury computer: how it worked, programming for it, shared use with other departments, need to use it profitably, long hours worked. Recalls 1963-1964 Harkness Fellowship at MIT to work on the application of computing to engineering, working with Charlie Miller. Returned to the new specialist Systems Section at the Ministry of Works, use of bureau machines, need to hire a complete machine and opposition to that. Talks about the New Zealand Computer Society, Gordon Oed, Errol Jones, first National Conference in Auckland, local manufacture of software and hardware, Progeni, competition between hardware suppliers. Explains different generations of computers, type of people suited to computing, computer industry and politicians, effects of computers on New Zealand society. Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Robinson's home in Silverstream Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001570b/001571/001572/001573a Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0245. Xeroxed photo in project report folder Search dates: 1926 - 1984
Crimp, Daryl 1958- :Keep to the left... Slow down, check your mirror... Indicate... Bra...
From: Crimp, Daryl 1958- : Cartoons entered in the 1992 Qantas Media Awards. 1992
Reference: H-218-004
Description: Shows a police car driving along with two men inside. The driver is being told by the passenger (a traffic inspector) to stay left, slow down and so on. The driver is looking very unimpressed and has a black cloud above his head. The number plate says "Merger". Refers to the merger of the Police with Traffic Saftey Services. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).
Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Drunken driving. 4 March 1978.
Date: 1978
From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[One folder of original cartoons concerning New Zealand politics. Published in the Auckland Star, January - June 1978].
Reference: A-328-081
Description: The cartoon shows a drunk man driving a car. He is being pursued by a snail, representing the government, with traffic patrol lights on the top of its shell. The drunk driver is happy to out run the snail. Refers to traffic control and the government not doing enough to stop drunk driving. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 240 x 190mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :"Your licence please and thanking you in anticipation....
Date: 1961
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
Reference: B-137-381
Description: A traffic officer gleefully licks his pencil in preparation for writing a ticket. He is smiling and polite in accordance with instructions to avoid making an enemy even if it is not possible to make a friend. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card with news clipping affixed, 253 x 280mm
Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991:Call back the provosts. 1940-1950?
Date: 1940 - 1950
By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: B-184-031
Description: The title in pencil below the cartoon is 'Call back the provosts'. Text at the top reads 'Lack of discipline on the part of motorists and pedestrians makes Wellington one of the most difficult traffic cities in the world - Mr H.H. Stirling, of the A.A.' The cartoon shows pedestrians at a crossing being taught discipline by a military policeman who yells 'By the left - Wait for it, wait for it! - 'eft, 'ight, 'eft, 'ight, 'eft! - Squad will move to the right - Squad, HALT!' The traffic lights have the words 'Quick march' for green, 'Mark time' for orange and 'Halt' for red. At bottom of cartoon in pencil is text reading '3 col x 4 1/4" L.N. today'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, pastel, and Chinese white on paper, 390 x 480 mm
Smile! One day I could be funding YOUR kidney dialysis. ca 14 May, 2003.
Date: 2003
From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]
Reference: DCDL-0002390
Description: A policeman stands beside his vehicle aiming his camera at passing drivers. Beside him is a notice advising drivers to smile as he could one day be funding their kidney dialysis. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
News - Transport chiefs have been working for 18 mths. on signs which will give time es...
Date: 2008
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
Reference: DCDL-0007801
Description: A long queue of cars waits in a traffic jam on the motorway in Auckland. A man stares glumly at a large signpost that gives an estimate of when journey estimate signs will be erected. The estimates suggest 'next yr, next govt, when pigs fly'. Refers to the news that transport chiefs have been working for 18 months on signs that will provide time estimates for Auckland motorway journeys. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Tasman Empire Airways Ltd :Fiji, hub of the South Pacific. Fly TEAL, New Zealand's inte...
Date: 1960
By: Tasman Empire Airways Ltd
Reference: Eph-E-AVIATION-TEAL-1960-04
Description: A stylised illustration of a Fijian policeman directing traffic. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, 1000 x 635 mm.
Nelson roadworks. Cardboard cutout police car used to slow traffic. "Just testing." 25 ...
Date: 2007
From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].
Reference: DCDL-0002893
Description: A woman pokes a policeman in the stomach with her umbrella to see whether he is real or a cardboard cutout. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- : "He just hit a rather large Hamilton speed bump." 31 Mar...
Date: 2011
From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].
Reference: DCDL-0017444
Description: A group of people in the basket of a hot-air balloon are amazed to see a man in a car shoot past; one of them says 'He just hit a rather large Hamilton speed bump'. Context - Residents in some streets in Hamilton are objecting to the size, cost and noisiness of speed bumps that have been placed in some streets to calm traffic. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Fletcher, David 1952-:'Is there anything slower than Auckland's traffic?' 'Only the gov...
Date: 2002
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DX-005-211
Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).
Children learning traffic control
Date: [ca 23 November 1951]
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 114/390/07-G
Description: Seven children learning traffic control with a traffic officer at the Magistrates' Court photographed circa 23 November 1951 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches