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The NZ Police Collection of 40 plus vehicles were housed at MOTAT for a number of years until 2011. Trams are displayed at MOTAT 1 and operate daily between MOTAT 1's Great North Road Site, via Western Springs Park and Auckland Zoo to MOTAT 2. [8] The extended line was opened by then-Prime Minister Helen Clark on Friday 27 April 2007. [9]
A replacement boiler has been acquired from Steam Incorporated In storage MOTAT 2; NZR Y class No.542 0-6-0 T 1923 – Hunslet Engine Company. No.1444. 23 tonnes. Operational MOTAT 2; NZR A B class No.832 4-6-2 1925 – North British Locomotive Company. No.23190. Tender locomotive. Static MOTAT 2. Was on loan to Glenbrook Vintage Railway until ...
K 900 was donated to MOTAT, and prior to being delivered to the MOTAT site, it was put on display outside Sims Pacific Metals until 1975 when it was replaced by D F 1301. It was then transported to the main MOTAT site and placed at the rail pavilion in the company of A B 832, F 180 Meg Merrilies, J 1236, W W 491, and diesel-electric locomotive ...
The MOTAT line was extended in 2006–07 to reach a second site of the museum, [23] and the former Auckland Regional Council promoted the creation of an Auckland waterfront tram line, originally with MOTAT vehicles, [24] but will initially operate former Melbourne trams leased from Bendigo Tramways Company Limited.
The remains of W W 491 were donated to MOTAT in 1975, where it remains on static display although its restoration has been stated as a long-term objective. W W 491 is the only member of its class preserved to retain its original low-pitched boiler.
MOTAT Aviation Hall, Auckland, New Zealand. Items portrayed in this file depicts. Museum of Transport and Technology. creator. some value. object of statement has ...
In 1995 the Friends of the Fell Society secured a lease on F 210, the sole remaining Fell brake van, from MoTaT for display in the museum. One of the conditions of the lease was that the van would be restored to the condition it was in when in service.
Richard William Pearse (3 December 1877 – 29 July 1953) was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterward describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew.