Trams Xmas 1956/Ashford 30th May 57/Transporter 1 March 59
Maker and role
Unknown, Producer
Production date
1956-1959
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Accession number
WAV-2021-6
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Production period
Description
Colour 8mm silent film on reel. Film is 14 minutes and 27 seconds long showing scenes of trams, trolley buses and cars in Auckland in December 1956. Tower wagon workers in a bar and performing maintenance on over head lines. Transport of a machine glazing cylinder for Kinleith Paper Mill hoisted from a floating crane and moved around Auckland with the assistance of tower wagons on the 1st of March 1959.
0:00:00 Trams in Auckland in December 1956, including showing trams with 'Farewell to the last trams' signage. Shows trams on streets with pedestrians, cars including at Queen Street and Customs Street intersection. Also shows trolley buses and cars in traffic with trams in Auckland Central. Shows traffic officers directing tarffic.
0:02:09 Trams 194 and 246 on grass after removed from service. Trams still have signage on from 'farewelling' trams.
0:02:48 Overhead line tower wagon truck driving on streets of Auckland. Unidentified people walking on street and drinking in a bar, talking and smoking. Likely same people in next shots as the tower wagon workers.
0:03:47 Unidentified people on top of a tower wagon performing maintenance on overhead lines. People posing next to tower truck.
0:05:55 Floating crane at Auckland Docks hoisting a 80 1/2 ton M.G. Machine Glazing cylinder for the No. 2 Paper Machine at the Kinleith Paper Mill, built by NZ Forest Products Limited Penrose, Auckland. Shows craning cylinder onto Geo, Dale and Sons Limited heavy hauler flat bed truck named 'George.' Crowd of people watching, scenes of crate cylinder arrived from with dimensions of cylinder stamped on.
Shows removal of cylinder on truck from docks with locomotive and trucks on dock lines. People seated on-front of locomotive on the pilot/cowcatcher.
Shows overhead tower wagons next to flat bed truck moving through streets of Auckland, with tower wagons lifting overhead lines out of the way for the cylinder to go past. Shows movement of cylinder up Symonds Street with pedestrians watching movement of trucks.
0:00:00 Trams in Auckland in December 1956, including showing trams with 'Farewell to the last trams' signage. Shows trams on streets with pedestrians, cars including at Queen Street and Customs Street intersection. Also shows trolley buses and cars in traffic with trams in Auckland Central. Shows traffic officers directing tarffic.
0:02:09 Trams 194 and 246 on grass after removed from service. Trams still have signage on from 'farewelling' trams.
0:02:48 Overhead line tower wagon truck driving on streets of Auckland. Unidentified people walking on street and drinking in a bar, talking and smoking. Likely same people in next shots as the tower wagon workers.
0:03:47 Unidentified people on top of a tower wagon performing maintenance on overhead lines. People posing next to tower truck.
0:05:55 Floating crane at Auckland Docks hoisting a 80 1/2 ton M.G. Machine Glazing cylinder for the No. 2 Paper Machine at the Kinleith Paper Mill, built by NZ Forest Products Limited Penrose, Auckland. Shows craning cylinder onto Geo, Dale and Sons Limited heavy hauler flat bed truck named 'George.' Crowd of people watching, scenes of crate cylinder arrived from with dimensions of cylinder stamped on.
Shows removal of cylinder on truck from docks with locomotive and trucks on dock lines. People seated on-front of locomotive on the pilot/cowcatcher.
Shows overhead tower wagons next to flat bed truck moving through streets of Auckland, with tower wagons lifting overhead lines out of the way for the cylinder to go past. Shows movement of cylinder up Symonds Street with pedestrians watching movement of trucks.
Signature/Marks and Type
Trams Xmas 1956/Ashford 30th May 57/Transporter 1 March 59 Hand-written
Media/Materials
Physical description
1 film reel : colour ; 16mm
Record level
Item
Credit line
Unknown. 1956-1959. Trams Xmas 1956/Ashford 30th May 57/Transporter 1 March 59, WAV-2021-6. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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New Zealand
Tram drivers
Auckland Electric Tramways Company Limited
Employees
Pictorial works
History
Auckland
New Zealand
Trams
Wires and wiring
New Zealand
Tramways
New Zealand
Wagons
New Zealand
Flat wagons
Railroad freight cars
Leyland trucks
Pictorial works
New Zealand
Trucks
New Zealand
Truck driving
History
New Zealand
Paper industry
History
Paper
Glazing
Auckland
New Zealand
Trolley buses
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