Automobiles - Customising

Date: 10 September 1983

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1983/3507-F

Description: Stacey Simpson (left) and Shane Simpson (right), children of Upper Hutt video parlour operator Robin Simpson, with customised Bedford bus, Space Shuttle 1, photographed 10 September 1983 by an Evening Post staff photographer. The bus was owned by Christchurch video games salesman Dave O'Connell, who used it to visit his clients. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: ca 1930s

From: Hird, Edward James, 1924-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7754-2

Description: Loose photographs extracted from album (PA1-o-1549). Includes photographs of a hill climbing sports car event, sports car club meeting, Wellington beaches, Wellington suburbs and housing developments, and the construction of a house. Mr Hird was an electrical designer, involved in the development of television, designing radios for Sir Edmund Hillary in Antarctica, and was apparently in radio surveillance in WW2. His father taught at Seatoun school. Mr Hird lived most of his life in the house at Mantell Street. See 'Freedom' newspaper, 25 Nov 1953, p.6 re his involvement in developing television. He was also a jazz musician. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 4 Jun 1988

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1988/2351-F

Description: Chevy Van with a fantasy scene painted on the back, and owner Dan Edgelow. He was part of a convoy travelling on 4 June 1988 from the Hutt Valley to the Wellington Sport and Recreation Centre, for the national customvan gathering and public showing. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 3 January 1975

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1975/0029-F

Description: Volkswagen car with face painted on engine cover, photographed in Boulcott Street, Wellington, on 3 January 1975 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Original newspaper caption reads "The VW, an out-of-town visitor to Wellington, was parked in Boulcott Street yesterday grinning inanely at all and sundry who passed by. It looked almost disconcerting in bright hues of yellow, orange and green, but at least anyone following the car would be compelled to keep your eyes on it." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-226

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1949-1950. Sculptures exhibited at Royal Society of British Artists Winter Exhibition; block of flats in Finchley Road, London used as secret headquarters of the Rear-Admiral of the Coastal Forces; Peter Scott, painter of wild birds and director of Severn Wild Fowl Trust, England; Faberge ornaments made for Russian royal family on display in London; Anderson family shearing-gang, Rangitoto district near Te Kuiti; goat herd belonging to A Miller of Riccarton (reputed to be only goats in NZ milked by machine). Rev B O Plumb of St Mark's, Opawa, Christchurch; Mr & Mrs E V Gaw who built their own house at Spencer Park; Ted Scott (journalist & boxer) with his mother and sister Mrs A Francis; L M S Bruce (formerly headmaster of the Cathedral and John Connon School for Boys, Bombay) on arrival in NZ with his wife; John Barnicoat of Wellington on return from trip to Tibet; Lyndhurst School; aftermath of fire which destroyed the Lake Hotel, Taupo on 29 Dec 1949; Waitotara Valley where Oswald Palmer crashed his Tiger Moth. Official function for Hon E B Corbett, Minister of Native Affairs, at Puniho Pa; Gower Wingfield of Kaeo, Northland and wife and daughter Myra on his return from Cook Islands where he was formerly the official dentist; Royal Artilleryman Major N W Routledge with his wife (formerly Miss P Grigg) and two children on arrival in Wellington to take up an appointment with NZ Army; Rev A P Stanley at St Columba's Church, Point Howard; old kerosene lamp post in garden of E J Thompson, Arrowtown. Mr & Mrs John Ellis and family on arrival in NZ; wedding group (Mr & Mrs Claude Flemming); Judge J S Blake-Reed; Sam & Ron Sinclair (Sanders Cup veterans); Peter Wilkinson of City of Christchurch Pipe Band; 1887 Te Aute scholars (T W Wills, Toito Poata, P H McDonald); William Williams; Samuel Williams; Harry G Wright of Central Otago (aged 90); girls who attended the Junior Red Cross camp held at Wellington; custom made car built by W Hulme Kerr; RNZAF training centre at Tairei air station near Dunedin; group photo of officers of No 1 Elementary Flying Training School, Taieri aerodrome, Mosgiel. Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 7 April 1986]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1986/1633-F

Description: Blair McAlpine in a modified Renault Dauphine. Photographed ca 7 April 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35 mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 3 October 1991]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1991/3050-F

Description: Jennifer Welch and Guy Ombler in pink minimised Mini or Noddy car. Photographed circa 3 October 1991 by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strips with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: 198?

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-NZ Transport-Motor vehicles and motor shows-03

Description: Photograph of modified 1958 Volkswagen Kombi van with owner, Alexandra car painter Nigel Newberry. Photograph taken by an unknown photographer and published in the Evening Post ca 1880s. The original caption reads: ".... Alexandra car painter Nigel Newberry has spent 650 hours in the last nine months modifying this 1958 Volkswagen Kombi van. About a metre was cut from the middle of the van, and minor engine and suspension modifications were made to give it this appearance.... " Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin-coated paper print 20.4 x 25.4 cm