IMAGE
Premises of D Picot, Karori, Wellington
- Date
- ca 1920s
- Reference
- 1/2-107545-F
- Description
Photograph of D Picot and Co's Victor Carrying Truck outside the firm's shop in Karori, Wellington. The name of the firm is painted clearly on the truck and the building.
D Picot owned one of the first motorised trucks in Karori and one of the first trucks to be used in business replacing horses and carts. The driver employed by D Picot at this time was Bert Dyer. D Picot and Co closed just after world war 2 due to the decline in demand for coal and wood as people switched to electricity (info from J Kenneally)
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Kenneally, Joseph Mervyn, 1944- : Photographs of the Wellington region, mainly of Upper Hutt, Whitemans Valley, Khandallah and Karori
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives
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Premises of D Picot, Karori, Wellington. Kenneally, Joseph Mervyn, 1944- : Photographs of the Wellington region, mainly of Upper Hutt, Whitemans Valley, Khandallah and Karori. Ref: 1/2-107545-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23197579More information can be found in our terms of use.