Motorcycle race meet at the Ashhurst racecourse.
Motorcycle racing programme for the meeting at the Ashhurst racecourse, 22nd January, 1926.
Place: Ashhurst
Date: January 22, 1926
Motorcycle racing programme for the meeting at the Ashhurst racecourse, 22nd January, 1926.
Place: Ashhurst
Date: January 22, 1926
Some vintage motorcycle race programmes, different districts.
Place: Various
Date: 1900s
The motorcycle in this image has been identified as a 1911 Humber 3.5hp single.
This image comes from a collection of unidentified negatives taken by H M Griffiths in the early 1900s, probably 1910-1920. Many of these negatives are labelled as ha...
Creator: H M Griffiths
Date: 1910 to 1920
Syd Jensen stands with his Triumph GP and a KTT Velocette motorcycle, alongside a year's worth of trophies, shields and banners from the 1949 racing season. Syd Jensen was a very successful pilot, aircraft builder, businessman, engineer, racing ...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940s
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 09 July 1958, page 5: "Twenty-year-old G. Terry (facing the camera) received the Orion Challenge Cup for his efforts in the New Zealand Auto-Cycle Union championship tri...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 9, 1958
Peter Thomson developed his own museum from his collection of motorcycles, at 1154 Rongotea Road Kairanga. It has over 100 motorcycles on display, dating from 1904 to present day, as well as motorcycling memorabilia, brochures, motor cycle magazin...
Creator: Leith Haarhoff
Place: Rongotea Road, Palmerston North
Date: July 6, 2019
Pictured is a group of Massey students' group of Vespa riders visiting Feilding.
The group of Vespa-friends occasionally rode to Feilding where on this occasion a vespa broke down, the Police came over for a look-see, and the locals a pu...
Creator: David Foster
Place: Manchester Square, Feilding
Date: 1986
This picture shows the carpark at the park, the green space, and the Palmerston North skyline. The park was originally a Pa, whose terraces were demolished in the c.1960s for soil to fill gulleys in the area for housing development.
Creator: David Foster
Place: Te Motu o Poutoa (Anzac Park / Pork Chop Hill)
Date: 1986
The motorcycle in the foreground is an Ariel. The riders are unidentified.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1920s
Syd Jensen on his Triumph GP Motorcycle, racing past his parents house (HW Jensen) on the Kairanga-Bunnythorpe Road. Syd Jensen was a very successful pilot, aircraft builder, businessman, engineer, racing driver and motorcyclist. He started racing...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940s
Josie Griffiths on a circa 1924-26 Blackburne engined Chater Lea motorcycle. Photo taken in the back garden at 19 Ngata Street, Palmerston North, circa 1929. This motorcycle was ridden by Fiery Faulkner who earned his nickname when he rode this bi...
Creator: Griffiths
Place: 19 Ngata Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1929
A photo of Fred Griffiths at home at 19 Ngata Street in circa 1926. The motorcycle he is straddling is a circa 1907-1909 Mountaineer, with a 275cc Moto Reve engine.
Creator: Griffiths
Place: 19 Ngata Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1926
This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...
Creator: William James Young
Date: 1900 to 1932
This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...
Creator: William James Young
Date: 1900 to 1932
A group of men work on a slip consisting of boulders and gravel almost covering the width of the road. The Manawatu River is running very high.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1933
This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...
Creator: William James Young
Date: 1900 to 1932
Syd Jensen stands with his Triumph GP and a KTT Velocette motorcycle, alongside a year's worth of trophies, shields and banners from the 1949 racing season. Syd Jensen was a very successful pilot, aircraft builder, businessman, engineer, racing ...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940s
This small photograph album belonged to Mrs R Andrews of Rangitikei House. This photograph bears the caption, "Ray Harding and Me". The motorcycle bears the plate "8 470".
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 22, 1928
This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...
Creator: William James Young
Date: 1900 to 1932