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Kōrero: Workshop industries

A. & G. Price locomotive

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A. & G. Price locomotive

The entire staff of A. & G. Price's engineering workshop in Thames pose with the 100th railway locomotive they built, about 1923. The spread of railway lines around the country in this period helped the firm to grow from tiny beginnings into a large company.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-6508

by Mae Hodsell

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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Ian Hunter, Workshop industries – The first New Zealand workshops, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/26031/a-g-price-locomotive (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ian Hunter, i tāngia i te 26 February 2010.