Searching for:
Refine Results
Refine results
Images attached
Subject category
Subject place
Classification
View
22 results. Displaying results 1 - 22.
Name | Summary/Abstract | Subject category | |
---|---|---|---|
Amateur Radio Operations Aid the 1933 Tasman Crossing by the Southern Cross
|
Aviation tours captured the imagination of the New Zealand public, with Tasman crossings increasingly carried out in the 1930s after the first successful crossing in 1928 by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. In January 1933 Kingsford Smith made another crossing, flying between Sydney and New Plymouth in Fokker F.VII ‘Southern Cross’ with co-pilot Patrick Gordon Taylor and radio operator John Stannage.
|
Shortwave radio
Radio stations Radio operators Radio Flight radio operators Radio equipment Southern Cross (Airplane) Fokker Tri-Motor F.VIIB-3M (Southern Cross) |
|
In Stitches: A Selection of Sewing Machines
|
In use since the late 1700s, sewing machines have been a key component in both domestic and industrial technology. Contributing to the industrial revolution, providing uniforms for war, and altering domestic duties; sewing machines have evolved with social change throughout history. Often associated with the popular Singer name, sewing machines have become a symbol of women’s work, clothing production and factory jobs. It is interesting to note sewing machines were not manufactured in New Zealand but imported and sold under license by New Zealand retailers. The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) Collection has a variety of sewing machines, which represent New Zealanders links with these, once essential, domestic appliance and reveal a unique side business for vehicle manufacturers.
|
Sewing
Sewing-machines Manufacturers |
|
The Life & Times of a well-travelled Steam tram Engine - No.100 - celebrating 130 years of age
|
Built in 1891 by the well-known engine manufacturers Baldwin Locomotive Works, read about the history of MOTAT's Tram 100.
|
Australia
New Zealand Conservation and restoration Wanganui Corporation Tramways |
|
Tram No. 135 and its century of travelling the tracks
|
Built in 1921, Tram No. 135's history of service in Wellington and journey to MOTAT is outlined.
|
New Zealand
Wellington City Corporation Tramways Conservation and restoration |
|
A Polarising Sauce: The Essence of Anchovies
|
In 2017, MOTAT received the donation of an unopened bottle of sauce carrying the title “Essence of Anchovies”. At first it may seem an unusual object for MOTAT's Collection, so let’s take a closer look at the unique history of this object.
|
||
Morris’s Marquetry Masterpiece — The Story of MOTAT’s Half-Tester Bed
|
One of the Registry team’s major projects for the year has been Collection Review. This is an ongoing process which assesses MOTAT’s Collection for its significance and relevance to the Mission and Strategy.
My research focus was on the Furniture and Fittings Department. A stand out object from my research was James Morris’ Half Tester Bed (1967.437). The bed was donated to MOTAT in 1967 by a descendant of Morris.
|
Carpentry
Wood Woodwork Art, colonial <C> Art, New Zealand Cabinetwork Kauri |
|
A Platform for the Future: Auckland Rapid Transit
|
The plan for Auckland’s electric metro rail that included an underground CBD loop from 50 years ago.
|
Railroad engineering
Railroads |
|
A New Topdressing Aircraft
|
The Walsh Memorial Library hold eight logbooks of Banks Peninsula-born pilot Harold Lord Piper (1899–1965). Log books are an invaluable record for any pilot — tracing the different aircraft types flown, distances and conditions they flew in.
|
Aerial fertilization
New Zealand |
|
Short Solent Mk 4, ZK-AMO "Aranui"
|
The Short S45A Solent Mk 4 Flying Boat ZK-AMO "Aranui" has been a feature in MOTAT's collection since 1964. Read more to learn about how "Aranui" came to be at MOTAT.
|
Coral Route
Tasman Empire Airways Limited Short Solent |
|
The Flying Kiwi: A Photo Essay
|
The Walsh Memorial Library currently has a selection of objects and archival material on display to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Cliff Tait’s round the world flight in New Zealand manufactured, AESL Airtourer 115 “Miss Jacy.”
The Library cares for the extensive photographic collection compiled by Cliff during this flight, which saw him away from his family from May — August 1969, something we’re all learned to grapple with during the COVID pandemic.
|
Flight
|
|
‘You’ve kicked me’: Tram Conductresses
|
Auckland’s tramway was initially a public/private venture by the British Electric Traction Company in London and the Auckland Borough Councils but was taken over by the Auckland City Corporation in 1919. It flourished for 40 years but street tramways fell out of favour and were replaced by diesel and trolleybuses in a modernisation programme after the Second World War. Auckland’s last trams ran on 30 December 1956 (although they run regularly at MOTAT).
|
Women transport workers
New Zealand Auckland |
|
Preserving Time
|
During the unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic, a trend that re-emerged was the appreciation of a more slow-paced life. This resulted from having more time at home due to people’s movements being restricted to their neighbourhoods. People had more time to spend in the garden and exercise through, walks, running, biking and/or scooter rides within their bubbles. With the lack of takeaway options, home cooked meals and baking became more common;, this also included the act of preserving food.
|
Canning and preserving
Glass Glass manufacture |
|
Christening the Collection
|
An important aspect of the Registry team’s role is reviewing the Collection. Here is what we have discovered about our assortment of christening gowns…
|
Christening gowns
|
|
Harold Piper — What’s in an Aviator’s Logs?
|
The Walsh Memorial Library hold eight logbooks of Banks Peninsula-born pilot Harold Lord Piper (1899–1965). Log books are an invaluable record for any pilot — tracing the different aircraft types flown, distances and conditions they flew in.
|
Aviators
Log books |
|
‘A Long Day in a Tin Can’
|
New Zealand Railways hostesses recall working the main trunk line in the 1970’s and 80's.
|
New Zealand Railways
North Island Main Trunk Railway |
|
MOTAT’s Queen of the Rails
|
How one of Auckland’s Last Trams contributed to the beginings of the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
|
'Streamliner' class (Tram)
Trams Tramways |
|
To the South Pole in a farm tractor
|
|||
Redressing the Balance – A Brief History of Letter Balances and the Penny Post
|
During my recent research of MOTAT’s Weights and Measures Collection, the letter balances, or postal scales, stood out – when did they first become popular and how are they relevant to New Zealand’s history?
|
Postal service
Postage stamps Scales (Weighing instruments) |
|
The Arrival of a MOTAT Icon
|
As part of the Registry team's Collection Review we delve into researching the MOTAT Collection. Here is some research I have been undertaking.
|
K (Locomotive)
New Zealand Railways Locomotives |
|
Short Sunderland NZ4115
|
MOTAT's Short Sunderland NZ4115 was officially presented to MOTAT in September 1966 and arrived the summer of 1967. Read on for more about its history and delivery to MOTAT.
|
New Zealand
Airplanes, Military New Zealand New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Air Force Seaplanes Short S.25 Sunderland Mk.III Short Sunderland |
Loading...