IMAGE
Car crossing on a makeshift bridge during the first motor trip from Wellington to Auckland - Photograph taken by E Gillings
- Date
- 1912
- By
- Gillings, E, active 1912
- Reference
- MNZ-0712-1/4-F
- Description
Ford car crossing on a makeshift bridge during the first motor trip from Wellington to Auckland in 1912. Persons and location, unidentified. Photograph taken by E Gillings.
Published in 'Making New Zealand' Vol 1, No 16, page 26
Caption - Making New Zealand caption reads: " Trouble in crossing a broken bridge. Shovel work work and planks solved the problems there. Today better roads make motoring easier."
Same image also at 1/4-018626
Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative
Provenance: Item lent by Arthur Frederick Chorlton snr to the Department of Internal Affairs for publication in 'Making New Zealand' in 1939.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
- Format
- 1 b&w copy negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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Gillings, E, active 1912. Car crossing on a makeshift bridge during the first motor trip from Wellington to Auckland - Photograph taken by E Gillings. Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection. Ref: MNZ-0712-1/4-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23141160More information can be found in our terms of use.