More Info →Brosco the Robot

Description

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.

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

This image presumedly depicts a Transport Department motorcycle escort.

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_038

Format

B&W negative

Held In

"Coolstore"