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Henry Swan
Apr 23, 20213 min read
VACREATION - NZ INNOVATION IN 1923
Oh we are so spoiled in this twenty first century, and you know even in the twentieth it was heads up toward cruisy with a constant...
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Makyla Curtis
Apr 23, 20212 min read
PRINT SHOP 1ST QUARTER MARCH 2021
The print shop holds a large amount of moveable metal type used for compositing and printing. All of this type has been accumulated...
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Kasserine Ross-Sheppard
Apr 23, 20212 min read
MOTAT CONSERVATION TEAM UPDATE
ATB Sign (2014.297) Borer Treatment This month the whole team worked on treating the Auckland Transport Board sign for active borer....
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Makyla Curtis
Apr 23, 20212 min read
GRAHAM O'KEEFFE: FAREWELL FROM THE PRINT SHOP
At the end of 2020 we celebrated Graham’s successes in the MOTAT team as he moved on to pastures anew. Graham O’Keeffe joined the MOTAT...
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Rick Schreuder
Apr 23, 20213 min read
"A1819" - THE ROYAL CONNECTION
Rail section is now two years into an extensive overhaul of A1819, a 1934 steel panelled carriage. This is the first major carriage...
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Alan Curtis
Apr 23, 20212 min read
MOTSOC VISIT TO FORT STONY BATTER
The MOTAT Society trip to Fort Stony Batter on Waiheke Island took place on 27th February - a beautiful sunny Saturday. Although we were...
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Graham O'Keeffe
Apr 23, 20212 min read
GRAHAM O’KEEFFE: REFLECTIONS OF A RETIRED MOTAT PRINT SHOP MANAGER
Retirement is . . . . . . Something to do. It was 2006 and I was considering setting up a print shop in the garage at home when Graham...
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Henry Swan
Dec 25, 20201 min read
“TOP GUN”
Corny title I know but that is what they are, the newly installed (dummy, but very realistic) guns in the rebuilt front turret of our...
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Alex Smith and Martyn Radford
Dec 25, 20206 min read
MOTAT VOLUNTEERS’ AUSSIE ADVENTURE - Part Three
The third and final installment of the Aussie Adventure made in October 2019 by five of our active Rail/Steam Volunteers with financial...
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Leyton Chan
Dec 25, 20201 min read
LUSH AWARD WINNER: JOSEPH DICKSON
When Joseph joined the tramway section - actually we enticed him over from the steam/pumphouse during the Peter Fisk era - being a...
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John Tutchen
Dec 25, 20202 min read
Seasons Greetings from The MOTAT Society.
As everyone is tired of hearing from all quarters, it’s been a difficult year for obvious Covid-related reasons. Despite that, we in the...
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John Tutchen
Dec 25, 20202 min read
MOTSoc Meets M3!
Our tour-party in the Conservation Lab. Hi-Viz ensured members not mistaken for artefacts & subsequently subjected to premature preservation
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Alex Smith and Martyn Radford
Aug 1, 20206 min read
MOTAT Volunteers Aussie Adventure - Part Two
In October 2019, with financial assistance from the MOTAT Society and MOTAT, five active Rail/Steam Volunteers headed to Melbourne,...
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John Tutchen
Aug 1, 20201 min read
WALSH MEMORIAL LIBRARY NEWS : "Best Reached By Rail"
The new exhibition within the MOTAT library This colourful event is a rolling twelve month display of iconic posters relating to NZ...
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John Tutchen
Aug 1, 20202 min read
OUR LATEST MOTAT SOCIETY EXCURSION : CRUISING THE KAIPARA HARBOUR
On Saturday, 21 March 2020, The MOTAT Society held another of our successful Society Excursions. This time we took to the water... Since...
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Chris Cameron
Mar 1, 20202 min read
A LOCAL BERTHA CONNECTION
Back in the mid-1980s, in the era of the so-called “Think Big” projects, I was General Manager of the heavy engineering company IST...
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John Tutchen
Mar 1, 20201 min read
MOTAT SOCIETY EXCURSION TO THE HAMILTON CLASSICS MUSEUM
The day dawned bright and warm as the MOTAT Society members gathered in the car-park at MOTAT-2 on Saturday 7 December. Our Coach was...
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Evan James
Mar 1, 20202 min read
THE OBERURSEL RESTORATION
New Zealand's oldest internal combustion powered locomotive, made in what is now claimed to be the world's oldest surviving aircraft...
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Administrator
Mar 1, 20202 min read
MAKYLA CURTIS (PRINT SECTION) - MOTAT...FERRYMEAD...HONG KONG
The December 2019 issue of the Ferrymead Printing Society’s newsletter The Scoop featured our very own Society members Alan and Makyla...
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Alex Smith and Martyn Radford
Mar 1, 20205 min read
MOTAT VOLUNTEERS' AUSSIE ADVENTURE - Part One
In October 2019, with financial assistance from the MOTAT Society and MOTAT, five active Rail/Steam volunteers headed to Melbourne,...
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