Road machinery

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PA1-q-294

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in Greece, Crete, the Middle East and Egypt during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. This album includes a number of official photographs taken for the British official records. Many of the personnel identified are listed above, but group portraits in which individuals are identified are not listed above. Many views show aspects of military training in the desert, including machine guns, rifles, manoeuvres, Bren guns, range practice, and anti-tank guns. New Zealand Divisional Cavalry. In England military training and preparation includes scenes of the New Zealand High Commissioner in London, William Joseph Jordan, watching New Zealand lumberjacks from the New Zealand Forestry Corps in a Gloucester forest felling trees for war purposes. Also related to England are scenes of the Duke of Gloucester inspecting troops, and King George VI at an investiture at Buckingham Palace investing Flight-Sergeant Williams with his Distinguished Flying Medal for gallantry in air operations. Long Range Desert patrols and expeditions into enemy territory showing the difficult terrain they had to negotiate. Views of a formation of five American-built Lockheed Hudson aircraft of the RAF Coastal Command carrying out an action patrol near Borkum, Heligoland and the Danish Coast. They are the first released photographs taken while under fire from German anti-aircraft ships, flying only 200 ft above the sea because of the weather (p 15-21). One image shows a wireless operator checking one of H.M. the King's homing pigeons, presented to the RAF to carry messages in case of a forced landing & breakdown of wireless. Arrival of NZ airmen & pilots for duty with the RAF in 1941. Gift of fruit and vegetables presented to NZ troops stationed in Fiji, transported 60 miles by boat from Kandavu, formally accepted by Brigadier Cunningham. (A number of images of Cunningham are dotted throughout the album). Views of the sinking of the Italian raider Ramb I, by HMS Leander in February 1941 (p 33-37). Scenes of a huge field bakery run by Egyptian bakers which can supply 3500 loaves each day. Also the "Waiwera Hotel - the 'ouse on the 'ill" cookhouse in the desert; and other scenes of food preparation. Relaxation organised by the YMCA, and the opening of the Lowry Hut run by the YMCA. Shipboard life on a transport ship, including games, relaxation and officers censoring mail. Floods after heavy rain in the Western Desert along the Mediterranean fringe (p 61-64). The Oranje leaving Amsterdam on her maiden voyage; used as hospital ship for Australian and New Zealand forces. Groups at the Royal Canadian Air Force Bombing and Gunnery School, all of whom are named (p 67-69). Prime Minister Peter Fraser's visit to the Middle East (p 69-72), his visit to Greece (p 93-105), and inspecting the hospital ship Maunganui (p110-111).) The No. 1 General Hospital in Greece. War damage to New Zealand House in London (p 105-106). Italian prisoners of war in a soccer match "NZ vs Italy" in Egypt (p 79-81); German parachute troops wounded and taken prisoner in Crete; captured swastikas used to hoodwink the enemy into dropping supplies. Fighting and evacuation of Crete. Evacuation of the Greek Royal party by a bodyguard of New Zealand soldiers, with views of a reception given by His Majesty the King of Greece, showing Lieutenant W H Ryan, Princess Marie, lady Palairet, Prince George, Prince Peter, and British military attache Colonel J S Blunt. Group portrait of New Zealanders in Britain training for the Fleet Air Arm (members named). Members of the New Zealand Bomber Squadron of the RAF who have been part of the raids on Germany, particularly on Berlin. (Several group portraits, some of which are named). Several photographs of unidentified men who escaped from Crete in barges. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 398-791 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: [between 1925 and 1927]

From: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926- :Photograph albums depicting the ashphalting of roads in Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-q-268

Description: Photographs taken between 1925 and 1927 depicting the ashphalting of roads in the Wellington region. Includes photographs taken for the Wellington City Council by Frank Giles Barker. Inserted in a pocket inside the back cover there are three loose photographs showing the Hutt Road alongside Wellington Harbour. Photographs of the Hutt Road include those alongside the harbour, and also some of the "Main Hutt Road" in Lower and Upper Hutt. Most of the photographs have good captions, with the title at the head of each one which reads "Asphaltic concrete pavement". Other - Some of the original negatives, from which these photographs were printed, are amongst the Wellington City Council collection at PAColl-5448. Other Titles - Asphaltic concrete pavement Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cloth cover, entitled "Photographs", 65 black paper pages of black and white photographs; 28.5 x 38.5 cm

Date: [between 1925 and 1926]

From: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926- :Photograph albums depicting the ashphalting of roads in Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Maybury, Horace R, active 1907-1943

Reference: PA1-q-267

Description: Photographs taken between 1925 and 1926 depicting the ashphalting of roads in the Wellington region. Includes photographs taken for the Wellington City Council by Frank Giles Barker and Horace R Maybury. Other - Original negatives, from which some of these photographs were printed, are amongst the Welllington City Council collection at PAColl-5448 Quantity: 112 b&w original photographic print(s) on album pages. Physical Description: Album with beige fabric cover and 58 brown paper pages, entitled "Album"; 27.5 x 38.5 cm

Date: 1968-1987

Reference: PAColl-6217

Description: Views of the pumping station at Gracefield; National Library staff inspecting the John Drawbridge mural at the MWD storage complex Gracefield, and auctions of surplus government equipment at Gracefield, including the last such sale in 1983. The mural by John Drawbridge was created for the New Zealand pavillion at the international exhibition, Osaka, Japan, 1970. After the exhibition it was stored at Gracefield. In 1987 it was installed in the foyer of the National Library, Wellington, where it's original colours were changed by the artist. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 52 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1925-1928

From: Duncan, June (Mrs), fl 1997 :Photographs from the estates of Joseph and Frank Duncan

By: Duncan, June, active 1997; Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-q-612

Description: A record of the new bituminous roads laid down in Wellington during the 1920s. Work on these began in 1922 and this album shows work still in progress as well as many finished pavings, in about 1928 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1925-1928

From: Duncan, June (Mrs), fl 1997 :Photographs from the estates of Joseph and Frank Duncan

By: Duncan, June, active 1997; Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-q-611

Description: A record of the new bituminous roads laid down in Wellington during the 1920s. Work on these began in 1922 and this album shows work still in progress as well as many finished pavings, in about 1928 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 07 Jan 1967

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/192

Description: Trevor Meyer describes how the introduction of the bulldozer to rural life for the purpose of road building, aroused great curiosity and disbelief. Explains how the first one, `a great clumsy monster of a thing that lumbered around on its tracks' drew a great audience. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 67 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0197 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 9 Minutes Duration.

Date: 1991 - 1999

By: Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand; Morris, Rod, active 1990s

Reference: Eph-D-BIRD-1990s-01

Description: Shows a large photograph by Rod Morris, of a kiwi sitting beside its egg. Down the right side are three circular photographs crossed through with red lines, showing threats to kiwi survival: Possums, stoats and large land-clearing machinery. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph 595 x 420 mm.

Date: ca 1929-1945

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-0614-2-16

Description: Photographs relating to roads, railways and transport, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken by a range of photographers, between 1929 and 1945. Includes slips on the Manawatu Gorge, construction of the Homer Tunnel and the Milford Road, a street cleaning machine, the Whirokino trestle highway and other road construction, and various roading machinery. Quantity: 73 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1930-1937

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-229/2

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (file).

Date: 1951-1956

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-229/5

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (file).

Date: 1937-1943

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-229/3

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (file).

Date: 1930

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to machines, machinery, engines, mechanical engineering]

By: Booth, Macdonald & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-MACHINERY-1930-01

Description: Advertising booklet, illustrating road construction equipment and machinery, including: scoops, wheelbarrows, scrapers, road ploughs, graders, stone sorters, scarifiers, stone breakers, granulators, elevators, crushers, sorters, shingle handling equipment, crab and friction winches, conveyor belts, wagon loaders, Boothmac portable pre-heater, bitumen sprayer, asphalt hot-mix plant, rollers, Boothmac independent scarifier, watering waggons [wagons], road sweepers, pumping plants, water towers, fire towers, transport wheels, pulleys and gears. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 60 pages, each 210 x 142 mm. Provenance: Purchased in the 1990s.

Date: 1957-1960

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-229/6

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (file).

Date: 1943-1951

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-229/4

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (file).

Date: 1924-1930

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-229/1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (file).

Date: 1973

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0825

Description: Men undertaking construction work in lower Willis Street, Wellington. Frame 2 was taken outside the Colonial Mutual Life building on the corner of Customhouse Quay and Willeston Street. Several images show men using vibrating tamping machines. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-019449-G

Description: Horse drawn road grader, probably in Christchurch. Photograph taken by Steffano Webb. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1945 - 1950

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Five early cartoons. ca 1945-1950].

Reference: B-154-128

Description: Two bystanders look at a large machine for roadmaking or roadmending; the machine in fact appears to require eight men to operate or use its various parts. A Wellington City Council rubbish drum (marked W. C. C.) in the right foreground establishes the location as Wellington. Exhibited in 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington: Celebrating the life and works of cartoonist Nevile Lodge' exhibition of cartoons By Nevile Lodge on Wellington topics over the period 1943-1988, curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive for the Wellington Museum of City and Sea, and exhibited at the Museum from 25 May to August 2004. Published in book 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington' by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive, 2004. Date estimated as post Second World War. Estimated as pre-1950 because Lodge has not yet established his habit of incorporating the date into his signature. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - [Signed] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 320 x 445 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by his brother V Leonard W Mitchell.

Reference: 1/2-071587-F

Description: Shows a group of men, sitting around a hut at Lyall Bay. A truck, trailer and grader are in the foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).