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Kōrero: Building materials

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.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: B.026764

by Gordon Burt

Permission of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

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

He kōrero nā Jeremy Salmond, i tāngia i te 4 March 2010.