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Skellerup gumboots

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Skellerup gumboots

Skellerup has been a major manufacturer of rubber gumboots for the New Zealand market, including the Marathon brand, pictured here in a newspaper report about wet summer weather in January 1976. Skellerup’s most famous brand is Red Band, designed for New Zealand farmers.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1976/0153/17

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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Jane Tolerton, Clothing and footwear manufacturing – Footwear, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23995/skellerup-gumboots (accessed 19 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 6 April 2010.