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  • "A Close Finish" - Motor Cycles
Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 May 1958, page 12: "K. Cleghorn (North) and A. Merrin (South), two of New Zealand's top riders, fight out the finish for the 500 c.c. race at the inter-island motor-cycle scramble championship at Whakarongo on Saturday last. Cleghorn won the race with Merrin in second place."

Identification

Object type
Image
Identifier
2017-20
Archive
Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Relation
2017-20
Date
May 1, 1958
Digitisation ID
2017N_2017-20_014735
Format
B&W negative
Held In
"Other"

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Taxonomy

Tags
1950s,
black and white,
championship,
manawatu evening standard,
motorcycle,
whakarongo,
Community Tags
championships,
motor cycles,
whakarongo,

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