Ceiling panel [Municipal Bus Building]
Object detail
Accession number
2005.22
Production period
Description
Pressed tin ceiling panel - 3 x (2 ft. x 2 ft.). Art deco design pressed onto tin to form one item 2 ft x 6 ft. in length. It is thin and easily bent, especially where the tiles join one another. Formerly in the Britomart Bus Station, which opened in 1937.
Media/Materials
Credit Line
Ceiling panel [Municipal Bus Building], 2005.22. The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
Public comments
Thank you, David. We have updated the title.
- MOTAT Curatorial Research posted one month ago.
"Bus ceiling panel" is a little misleading as a title. It is a decorative ceiling panel from "Municipal Bus Building"s expansive shelters underside In what we now know as Britomart. The facade on Commerce Street end said "Municipal Bus Building". The shelters extended quite a distance down Tyler and on the Galways Streets side of the complex. There was a waiting room with wooden benches, information kiosk, Newsagent kiosk under the cover of these tiles. Several other shops including a drycleaners and camera shop at various times. It was the hub which many of the cities buses left from.
- David Cawood posted one month ago.