New Zealand motorists' road guide for the North Island

Production date
1936
See full details

Object detail

Accession number

PUB-2019-23.6

Description

Guide for motorists and motorcyclists traveling New Zealand with through routes, camping grounds, table of distances and sectional maps. Includes hints to motorists, government tourism bureaux and resorts, tour routes with maps, places en route, miles between, road surfaces and general descriptions, and advertisements.

"In planning the lay-out... the rule has been followed to give first of all the main East and West Coast through routes between Auckland and Wellington. Then to describe central routes, between these extremities, converging on the National Park District.The connecting links between these central routes, and the East and West Coast Routes - from Te Kuiti, Wanganui and Bulls, Rotorua, Napier, Taupo, Taihape Palmerston and Woodville will be found in their respective Sections." - preface

Contents: foreword / index to maps / index to routes and road maps / list of automobile associations / camping places / table of distances / traffic signs / index to advertisers / reference index

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper

Physical description

351 pages : maps, illustrations (black and white) ; 21.5 cm

Edition

16th

Other title

The New Zealand Motorists' Road Guide (North Island)

Credit line

1936. New Zealand motorists' road guide for the North Island, PUB-2019-23.6. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).