ALBUM - Gates of Haast Bridge.

About this image

DescriptionScanned from a slide taken by Robert Geen who worked on the road.Map^[1] Last edited by: Katherine

ContributorKatherine Blakeley

Shown in this image

Location (city or town)HaastLandmark (Place)Gates of Haast Bridge

Category Information

Category TagBridge

From Facebook

Date Created24th August 2023CommentsKevin Lott

Riley old austin

Philip Kennett

Kevin Lott my grandfather ran that truck back in the day .

Te Naihi Wilson
I recall sitting in our car waiting for thr gates to be unlocked. my dad whànauka from makaawhio and we were going down from hokitika

Philip Kennett

Grandad used work on that truck Noel Kennett he used to work with len

John Bennett
Champion 686 Grader

Des Smith
John Bennett early D600 Les 154 hp 14.00 x 24 instead of 16.00 x 24 and a bit lighter

Roger O'Regan
My goodness. An old Lodestar with a Commer on the end of the hook. I bet that Austin fan was humming towing that!

Roger O'Regan
And was the Commer driver exhausted from steering his truck?

Kevin Oregan
Never seen either of those two trucks. Austin would have been good to steer but perish the thought of a steep uphill or downhill.

Robert Madden
Ro Bert madden was driving that truck towed the commer back to Dunedin len Scobie steering the commer

OCR Text Transcription Edit Edit +-Close

Editing is temporarily disabled

Cancel Edit

Start typing here to find a location	Latitude	Longitude	Zoom	Actions

loading google map....

Save Cancel

Menu

ALBUM - Gates of Haast Bridge.

Editing is temporarily disabled