Kōrero: Building materials

Making bolts

Making bolts

Workers at a Wellington factory sit at machines manufacturing steel bolts. In the foreground are large bins full of bolts. The image was taken by photographer Gordon Burt possibly in the 1940s. In the early 2000s ironmongery was largely imported.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Reference: B.026764
Photograph by Gordon Burt

Permission of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Jeremy Salmond, 'Building materials - Ironmongery', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/25133/making-bolts (accessed 12 May 2024)

He kōrero nā Jeremy Salmond, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010