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Electric lighting, 1960s

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Electric lighting, 1960s

This time-lapse exposure captures a line of car headlights on Main Street, Upper Hutt, in the 1960s. Development in electric street lighting significantly improved the brightness of streets after dark.

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Upper Hutt City Library Heritage Collections

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Adrian Humphris, Streets and lighting – Street lighting, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24498/electric-lighting-1960s (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Adrian Humphris, published 6 April 2010.