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University students with the Sloth Mobile

11 November 1986

Group of university students dressed up as pirates and drinking around a decorated 1952 Austin A40 car with a sail attached, named the Sloth Mobile.

Creator: Christchurch Star

Area: West / Ilam

Source: Christchurch Star Archive

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1930 Model A Ford converted to run on coke gas

1942

1930 Model A. During the war petrol was rationed. This is a coke burner on the back which made gas to run the car. Note bags of coke on running board.

Area: Other / Unknown

Contributor: Dave Howell

Source: Entry in the 2014 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt

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Group portrait with a Vauxhall

1969

Group photograph with an unidentified woman, Owen Paterson, Bernard Smyth, Helen Holmes and Brian Edwards sitting in a Vauxhall 30/98 for a CTV news program.

Area: Central City / Central Christchurch - South

Source: Entry in the 2013 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt

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Children at a wedding

1952

At a neighbour, Esther Hendren's, wedding. Children on bridegroom's car are my brothers, sister and neighbour's. Left-right Barbara, Tony, Ian, Gayleen, Joan, Jimmy, Karen (front) and Mick.

Area: North West / Papanui

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New Vauxhall Victor at new university

1965

This photo was commissioned by Farmers Motors to display the newly released Vauxhall Victor.  Several of us were enlisted to show that the vehicle was a true 6 seater.  The photo  was taken outside the Engineering Building at the new Ilam University site.

Area: West / Ilam

Source: Kete Christchurch

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The Rawleigh's salesman

About 1935

The Rawleigh's salesman standing in front of a vehicle.

Area: Other / Unknown

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At the Southbridge Labour Day Agricultural Fair

October 1949

Country and city folk get together at the Southbridge Labour Day agricultural fair in 1949

Area: Other / Wider Canterbury

Source: Entry in the 2015 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt

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Mountaineering in the Southern Alps

About 1945

Mountaineering in the Southern Alps around the late 1940s.

Area: Other / Wider Canterbury

Contributor: Bronwyn Shanks

Source: Entry in the 2012 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt

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Cooling off near Coalgate

1929

Area: Other / Wider Canterbury

Contributor: Brian Gilberthorpe

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Dwight Family, 1950s

1950s

Family - my mother Thelma Dwight, myself and my 5 siblings - Julie, James, Dianne, Leslie, Thelma and Glen.

Area: Other / Unknown

Contributor: Dianne Dwight.

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Clement-Talbot automobile

1906

Two unidentified men and a boy inside a Clement-Talbot automobile photographed outside Limes Hospital, where the Christchurch Town Hall now stands. Contributor's note: "The car is still buried under a concrete drive in North Beach."

Area: Central City / Central Christchurch - North

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