More Info →"New Telephone Cable For Linton" [Fitzherbert Bridge]

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15th February 1963. "Engineers from the Post and Telegraph Department were busy this morning installing a new duct cable on the Fitzherbert Bridge. The cable, when fully laid, will supply the new Linton exchange which is expected to be finished by June, 1963. Mr H. Whiteman (right) and Mr. S. Russell are seen preparing to pull the new cable through the duct ready for joining."

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Relation

2017-20

Date

February 15, 1962

Digitisation ID

2017N_2017-20_017551

Format

B&W negative

Held In

IMCA Digital Archive