NZ Transport

This definitive work presents for the first time a detailed record of all known New Zealand-related aeronautical activity of the long-neglected pioneering period of 1868-1914. The complete trilogy will undoubtedly become an indispensible first place of resource for historians, aviation enthusiasts and genealogists alike. The 184-page first volume takes the story up to 1909. It includes eye-witness accounts and over 100 illustrations, many of which are published for the first time. There is comprehensive coverage of the daring ballo... read more

Sit back and enjoy the ride while Graham Hutchins takes you on a journey of discovery around New Zealand. In the style of Michael Palin, Hutchins describes a dozen unique train journeys, accompanied by many superb colour photographs of New Zealand's incomparable scenery. For tourists, the book will be a personal travelogue, in which the main features of the landscape, as seen from the train, are described as the journey unfolds; for railway enthusiasts, the book provides nice lineside train photos and some little-known historical a... read more

One hundred years since it was opened, the North Island Main Trunk linking Wellington and Auckland remains the country's most important railway and a symbol of what railways have stood for in New Zealand's history. From the early aspirations of colonial politicians to its long and at times troubled construction; from its boom years to the later decline of passenger services; from competition with road to electrification, the North Island Main Trunk has charted the ebb and flow of New Zealand's railway history. This book brings toge... read more

Keith G. Brown documents Addington Workshops rich history from formation to closure and details his own experiences working as a tradesman carpenter at Addington from 1949 to 1987. The first book to document Addington's leading role in the manufacture and repair of rolling stock for New Zealand Railways, this is a fascinating look behind the fence of this once-famous facility. Lavishly illustrated with colour and black and white photographs, the workshop buildings, manufacture and repair of locomotives, carriages and wagons are all... read more

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Trucks : A Vintage Collection is a quality pictorial publication in full colour featuring trucks from the Bill Richardson Truck Museum in Invercargill, New Zealand, arguably the largest private collection of its type in the world. Ranging from 1911 to 2003, with over 170 trucks representing some 50 manufacturers, this book will make a superb addition to the library of any truck enthusiast. Won a NZ printing industry award. 224 pages, large format.

Ford Zephyrs and Zodiacs were a quintessential part of life in New Zealand for everyone over 40 − not many Kiwis won't have h... read more

A companion volume to the extremely successful book On the TransAlpine Trail, this provides a reference guide for those travelling on the Christchurch-Picton train, the daily "TranzCoastal", to the towns, settlements and geographical features to be seen from the train over the 350 km journey. Arranged in geographical order from Christchurch are notes on the history of each settlement passed through, anecdotes and points of interest. These consist of general information for all travellers and specific details of interest to railwa... read more

This book examines those ships and shipping companies that transported migrants to Australia and New Zealand from 1900 to 1939, the outbreak of World War II. It examines where they were built, by whom, their tonnage, dimensions, service speed and propulsion, when and where they were launched and the history of their migrant-carrying voyages.

This book is a lovely pictorial history of the spectacular Otago Central Railway that once stretched 236 km inland from Dunedin as far as Cromwell; now truncated to the 64 km as far as Middlemarch, the route of the highly popular Taieri Gorge Limited tourist excursion train. With the increasing popularity of both the Taieri Gorge Limited and the Otago Central Rail Trail walkway/cycleway which follows the old roadbed 150 km from Middlemarch to Clyde, this top-selling book has been updated with many fresh photos so that visitors c... read more

Now representing a quarter of the present-day KiwiRail network, the South Island Main Trunk stretches 1000 km from Picton in the Marlborough Sounds to Bluff at the bottom of the South Island, along the way passing through an impressive variety of terrains: mountains, coastline (for some 100 km both at the same time) hill country, plains, and of course, cities. This book relates the history of the two sections of the railway, which were completed nearly seven decades apart, as well as features of engineering and scenic interest, th... read more

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Motorcycles in New Zealand finds author Tim Chadwick delving further into the culture and history of the kiwi motoring scene on his ninth published investigation. A mixture of historic archival images, together with Tim's candid photographs of the New Zealand motorcycling scene and the work of professional photographers, presents us with a diverse and exciting look into the world of kiwi motorcycling in many of its forms.

A veritable 'tour de force' of authentic steam railway action in colour. The late Derek Cross was a British geologist and keen steam railway enthusiast who visited New Zealand in the 1950s. Many of his black and white photos from his travels around New Zealand have been published in books and magazines, but only a small number of his colour slides have been seen before. This book contains 380 out of the approx 900 slides he took, organised geographically from north to south, and nearly all of them are hitherto unseen. All are rep... read more

This book contains 288 fabulous colour images of New Zealand maritime scenes from the collection of the Museum of Wellington City and Sea, and others, taken between the 1950s and 1970s. This was the era when conventional cargo ships still plied the waters, and people headed overseas still boarded passenger liners instead of aircraft. Included are large ocean going ships and smaller coastal traders, ferries, service vessels, ports large and small, and wharf scenes redolent with the atmosphere of the time before containerization ch... read more

Classic American cars with classic American names - Chevy, Chrysler, Ford, Pontiac - are enormously popular in New Zealand and, each year, tens of thousands of fans flock to events such as the Whangamata Beach Hop, the Kumeu Classic Car and Hot Rod Show, Americarna in New Plymouth and the Dunedin All American Car Show. In addition to these, numerous other provincial car shows, swap meets and individual car marque rallies are on around the country at any given time. Kiwi Americars We Love celebrates Kiwis' love of big American cars ... read more

Vantastic takes a lively look at one of New Zealand’s most popular traditional holiday pursuits - caravanning. Packed with never-before-published photographs, interviews and memorabilia, it captures the wonderful feelings of freedom and security unique to the ‘home on wheelsâÃ&A... read more

For almost eighty years New Zealand Railways operated a line that extended south from Nelson. The expectation of Nelsonians was that sooner, rather than later, their region would be connected to the rest of the South Island railway system as promised by various Governments. Construction delays, rugged terrain, acts of God, politics, and the development of road transport all conspired against that happening. For over forty years Glenhope, a tiny settlement 59 miles from Nelson, was effectively the terminus of the railway, which aft... read more

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