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Wool truck

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Wool truck

A truck laden with wool bales negotiates the steep coastal road at Cape Terawhiti, near Wellington, in 1939. Road freighting began to compete with railway transport once motor vehicles became more common, from the 1920s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Making New Zealand Centennial Collection (PAColl-3060)

Reference: MNZ-1667-1/2-F

by E. Christensen

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.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Roads, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18546/wool-truck (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.