SPOTLIGHT ON MOTAT’S ORAL HISTORIES Not generally well known is MOTAT’s considerable and growing oral history repository. Over the last...

SPOTLIGHT ON MOTAT’S ORAL HISTORIES Not generally well known is MOTAT’s considerable and growing oral history repository. Over the last...

Not far from MOTAT, some things haven’t changed much in Kingsland over 100 years. Here we have a set of photographs of A.W. Page’s Store...

The MOTAT Society offers a very belated congratulations to all the recipients of the MOTAT Volunteer Awards in June 2021. Ross...

An early MOTAT Society project was the joint venture with the NZ Fighter Pilots Assn to provide the memorial to eight RNZAF pilots lost...

Lockdowns have put almost everything on the back burner, and three of our MOTAT Society excursions have had to be put on a backburner...

I don't believe that any of us at the time had any realisation of the hugeness of the contribution that MOTAT and co-ordinator KEN...

A short history of Shorts Sunderland NZ 4115 1945 - Manufactured by Short Brothers in Northern Ireland for the RAF. Manufacturer’s...

Although being a difficult and stressful time for many, reaching level 3 of lockdown presented a special opportunity for some works to be...

With great respect for his mechanical expertise, experience and 40 plus years of service to MOTAT the Society wish to acknowledge the...

How one of Auckland’s Last Trams contributed to the development of the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT). - By James Duncan Tram...

Blessed, yet again, by the Weather Gods a full busload of Society Members departed MOTAT2 on Sunday 2nd of May in glorious sunshine....

Ross “Goldie” Goldsworthy of Military Section suggested this trip to Maungauika/North Head and lead the tour since he knows the way...

All volunteers are asked questions by the visitors to MOTAT and frequently ADH volunteers are questioned as to how the radial engine...

The MOTAT print shop has a tradition of printing bookmarks. From the classic designs for visitors to collect from the take home shelf, to...

Some days don't start too well but end up just about perfect if you know what I mean. I'm sure that you must have experienced it,...

David Martin was born in the UK and moved to NZ in 1960. Dave joined MOTAT as a volunteer in the Rail Section in 1969 and became...

Our April issue of Squeaky Wheel contained a fantastic article by Rail's Rick Shreuder regarding the restoration of the A1819 Dining Car,...

Auckland’s “Teetotal” Trolley bus No.115 Specially Brewed by James Duncan Originally published on 'Stories from MOTAT' During the 1960s...