More Info →Brosco the Robot

Description

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “When Brosco the Robot, who was walking from Wellington to Wanganui, visited Palmerston North a large crowd turned out to see the spectacle… The Aluminium body being unloaded.”

Brosco was a publicity stunt designed to publicise the Wanganui Industrial Fair. He unfortunately did not make it all the way to Whanganui, as an impatient driver ran into him in Bulls. An article about the stunt was written for the Wanganui Chronicle and published on 30 June 2012.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

2022-38

Date

September 1960

Digitisation ID

2022N_2022-38_P292_039462_030

Format

B&W negative

Held In

"Coolstore"