 Modes of Transport Photograph K196 Personally, I can remember our milk being delivered by horse and cart, the milk man pouring our milk from his large milk cans into our 'billy'. Similarly, the ashes from our coal range and open fires were collected by the 'ash man' with his horse drawn ash cart. |
 From 1900 and probably earlier, Kaikorai bread deliveries were made by horse and cart. See more information on this business. |
 A closer look a delivery cart of William Taylor's Kaikorai Bakery See more information on this business. |
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 Maori Hill electric tram passing Roslyn Post Office between 1908 and 1936. See more about these trams |
 Electric tram passing horse carriage while approaching Roslyn shops from City Road. See more about these trams |
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 Kaikorai cable car at Roslyn stop, some time before 1939 when the cable cars on this route were renumbered. |
 Cable Car and Bus at Ross Street Junction some time after 1936 when Maori Hill electric trams ceased operation. |
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 Delivery Bicycle similar to the one I used to use for delivering from the Self Help shop in Roslyn. See more under What we did. |
 In 1951 I used this truck to take rubbish to the refuse dump when I first started work. See more on trucks. |
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 1938 James 2 stroke motorcycle, the first in a series of such transport modes for myself. See more under What we did. |
The first ever motorcycle ride where I actually rode the 'monster' myself was in Frasers Road. My friend Murray Payne had an old belt drive, rectangular petrol tank motorcycle (make not remembered). We would take turns riding it up to about where the car park turn-around is now, turn around and ride back again. It was apparently required to periodically pump a small handle on the fuel tank to feed oil somewhere. Pictures of such early machines appear to have direct belt drive from a pulley on the side of the motor to a large one on the rear wheel. Rumoured to slip badly in wet weather. more on vintage motorcycles. |
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 Post war saw a significant change in the appearance of cars such as the Morris Minor. Read more on post war cars |
 Eventually trolley buses were introduced on the route up Stuart Street Extension. View larger picture |