Image
The penny-farthing, also called the ‘ordinary’, appeared on New Zealand roads in the 1870s, and outpaced the velocipede, the first bicycle, which had arrived in the late 1860s. These men rode their penny-farthings from Christchurch to the West Coast in 1887.
Using this item
Reference: PA1-f-010-21
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.