New machinery being hauled up to veneer factory
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Photograph
Production date
Circa 1949
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Description
Veneer company's RD8 tractor hauls the new 'Washington' hauler up the punga road to the factory site at Ellis & Burnand's Manunui sawmill. The machine was converted from steam power to diesel by engineers on arrival at the veneer factory.
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HCL_07516
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This is Ellis Veneer's Caterpillar RD8 tractor moving the Washington hauler after it was converted to diesel on the Punga road at Manunui c1949. See "Logging the Punga", Audrey Walker & Ron Cooke, Taumarunui & Districts Historical Society, 2021, page 337.
- Kevin Crosado
Posted on 22-08-2022 04:25:09