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Making bolts

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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.

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: B.026764

by Gordon Burt

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Jeremy Salmond, Building materials – Ironmongery, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25133/making-bolts (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jeremy Salmond, published 4 March 2010.