The Brookby countryside was inspirational - rolling hills, manicured fields, and classic wood railing fences culminating in an imposing...

Making replica factory plates for MOTAT’s locomotives These days when a new machine comes out of a workshop it will generally have the...

Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield, Thames The 11th of September saw Thames’ Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield’s 3rd commemoration of Sir...

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...

Covid19 Lockdowns and Protection Level restrictions prevented the MOTAT Society from holding its 2021 Annual General Meeting until 30...

Not generally well known is MOTAT’s considerable and growing oral history repository. Over the last twenty years the Walsh Memorial...

Not generally well known is MOTAT’s considerable and growing oral history repository. Over the last twenty years the Walsh Memorial...

To celebrate the wonderful world of engineers, in this issue of the Squeaky Wheel we've chosen to highlight some of our favourite...

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...