MOTAT AVIATION HALL TOUR
The hardest part of any trip to MOTAT is finding somewhere to park the car, then getting to the entrance. This expectation has been...
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jodiecawthorne7
- Dec 22, 2022
- 1 min
Merry Christmas To All
Dear Members of the MOTAT Society. Your committee and administrator wish you and your families Merry Christmas and every success for...
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jodiecawthorne7
- Dec 22, 2022
- 1 min
2022 LUSH AWARD RECIPIENT - RON WILSON
This year the MOTAT Society is proud to present the Lush Award to Ron Wilson for his ingenuity and expertise in the detailed recreation...
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Henry Swan
- Dec 22, 2022
- 4 min
ROLLING OUT TO ROLLS ROYCE
The Brookby countryside was inspirational - rolling hills, manicured fields, and classic wood railing fences culminating in an imposing...
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Rick Schreuder
- Oct 10, 2022
- 8 min
IDENTITY CRISIS NO MORE
Making replica factory plates for MOTAT’s locomotives These days when a new machine comes out of a workshop it will generally have the...
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jodiecawthorne7
- Oct 10, 2022
- 1 min
BATTLE OF BRITAIN COMMEMORATION
Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield, Thames The 11th of September saw Thames’ Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield’s 3rd commemoration of Sir...
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Richard Croker
- Jul 7, 2022
- 4 min
THE WIRI STATION BUILDING
The following is a brief report prepared last year at about the time it seemed as if the Wiri building was, at last, coming to adorn the...
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Administrator
- Jul 7, 2022
- 1 min
MOTAT SOCIETY COMMITTEE 2021/2022
Covid19 Lockdowns and Protection Level restrictions prevented the MOTAT Society from holding its 2021 Annual General Meeting until 30...
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Administrator
- Jun 23, 2022
- 10 min
ERIC BURNS - CONDUCTOR TO MOTORMAN
Not generally well known is MOTAT’s considerable and growing oral history repository. Over the last twenty years the Walsh Memorial...
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Administrator
- Jun 23, 2022
- 13 min
PHYLLIS HARWOOD - TIME "ON THE BAG" - 1947 TO 1956
Not generally well known is MOTAT’s considerable and growing oral history repository. Over the last twenty years the Walsh Memorial...
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Henry Swan
- Mar 14, 2022
- 4 min
WONDERFUL WORLD OF ENGINEERING
To celebrate the wonderful world of engineers, in this issue of the Squeaky Wheel we've chosen to highlight some of our favourite...
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Administrator
- Mar 14, 2022
- 8 min
GRAHAM VOITRE - THE MAN WHO PAINTED THE LAST TRAM
SPOTLIGHT ON MOTAT’S ORAL HISTORIES Not generally well known is MOTAT’s considerable and growing oral history repository. Over the last...
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Administrator
- Mar 14, 2022
- 4 min
NOLA MORGAN - MOTAT, A FAMILY AFFAIR
SPOTLIGHT ON MOTAT’S ORAL HISTORIES Not generally well known is MOTAT’s considerable and growing oral history repository. Over the last...
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Alan Curtis
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
RETROSPECTIVE OF AN EARLY AUCKLAND TRAMLINE
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...
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Administrator
- Dec 14, 2021
- 1 min
VOLUNTEER AWARDS JUNE 2021
The MOTAT Society offers a very belated congratulations to all the recipients of the MOTAT Volunteer Awards in June 2021. Ross...
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Bill Rayner
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
RNZAF RABAUL INCIDENT
An early MOTAT Society project was the joint venture with the NZ Fighter Pilots Assn to provide the memorial to eight RNZAF pilots lost...
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Henry Swan
- Dec 14, 2021
- 4 min
SOCIETY TRIP TO HORTON MEDIA
Lockdowns have put almost everything on the back burner, and three of our MOTAT Society excursions have had to be put on a backburner...
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Henry Swan
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
FAREWELL TO KEN NEWLAND & OTHERS
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...
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Mike Smith
- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
THE RESTORATION HISTORY OF SHORT SUNDERLAND RNZAF S/N NZ 4115
A short history of Shorts Sunderland NZ 4115 1945 - Manufactured by Short Brothers in Northern Ireland for the RAF. Manufacturer’s...
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Louis Eaton
- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
WORK IN PROGRESS – THE PRINT SHOP
Although being a difficult and stressful time for many, reaching level 3 of lockdown presented a special opportunity for some works to be...
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