1960's New Zealand

"user314" (user314) 06/12/2020 at 11:39 • Filed to: history, New Zealand, photography

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In re searching the photo in ttyymmnn’s !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , I found this !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! on Vintage Everyday with that photo and more:

Dunedin Railway Station. Love the streetcar catenary too.

Marton. Road safety at Marton Junction School

Blenheim. In front of the Chief Post Office

Bluff. MV Waiwera

Bridgman Street, approaching Andersons Bay Road

Christchurch. Cathedral Square

Stewart Island. Halfmoon Bay with the Tourist Air Travel Ltd Grumman G-44A Widgeon aircraft ZK-BAY

Sadly, that Widgeon !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , killing the pilot and all three passengers in 1970:

Pilot Roger Poole was taking a TV news crew of three to film a burning 8.5m launch near Browns Island. After circling the launch and landing nearby, the floatplane took off and circled to the right at low level. It straighten out as if to return to base at Mechanics Bay, but then banked steeply to the right, the turn becoming near vertical. The nose dropped and it crashed into the sea, killing all four aboard.

The investigation found the float near the wingtip could obscure filming, but for a better camera angle the aircraft could be flown with the right rudder to skid around the nose, with opposite aileron to counteract any rolling effect. The pilots view to the right was obstructed by the camera operator, he was flying into the early morning sun, and the artificial horizon was switched off and locked, all of which prevented him realising the dangerous angle until too late.

Wellington cable car

Wellington. Lambton Quay with the MLC Building

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > user314 06/12/2020 at 12:42

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What’s going on here? Why are so many people watching a Bettle and, what is that, a Morris Minor, drive by? Street race?

fintail > user314 06/12/2020 at 12:44

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I like in the traffic school pic there are a couple of prewar American cars in the background - a t left looks like a ~36 Dodge, perhaps a 37 Chevy at right (a little blurry) .

Also notice the Fiat 500 next to the Mark II Jag and a late 50s Mopar wagon next to the Borgward. I think also a PA Cresta/Velox in front of the post office.

user314 > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 06/12/2020 at 12:54

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Maybe. Or a parade, it’s tough to say.

This is the kind of thing that’s going to make future historians crazy (if it isn’t already): all these images preserved with little to no indication what they’re of. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > user314 06/12/2020 at 13:21

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That Beetle has way too much suspension lean to be driving in a parade and I doubt so many people would turn up for a 50 hp  race before 50 hp was cool. Seriously, I'm so confused.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 06/12/2020 at 15:48

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I t’s a street race. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunedin_Street_Circuit

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/12/2020 at 15:52

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Ah.