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This cable car, nicknamed the ‘whale back’ because of its arched roof, climbed steep hills to the suburb of Roslyn in Dunedin until 1947. Cable cars operated by gripping a moving cable through a slot between their tracks, a particularly useful mechanism for ascending hills. The first Dunedin cable cars in the 1880s were powered by steam engines.
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Hocken Collections, University of Otago
Reference: S05-249a
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