"Test Track Machine" Railway Machinery
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This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 September 1958: "This strange looking vehicle is a Swiss made Matisa railway track recording car which was in the Palmerston North yards testing yesterday. Weighing nine tons, this machine runs at an economical 15 miles to the gallon."
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Identifier
- 2017-20
- Relation
- 2017-20
- Date
- September 13, 1958
- Digitisation id
- 2017N_2017-20_014899
- Format
- B&W negative
- Held in
- Other
Creation
- Created By
- Manawatu Evening Standard
- Place
- Main Street, Palmerston North
Object rights
- License
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Taxonomy
- Community Tags
- machinery
- railway tracks
- railway yard
- railways