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Kōrero: Motorcycles

Mobile washerwoman

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Mary Watson of Seddon, Marlborough, offered a mobile clothes-washing service with her motorbike and sidecar in the 1940s. 

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: Weekly Review no. 317. National Film Unit, 1947

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Carl Walrond, Motorcycles – History of motorcycles, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/20705/mobile-washerwoman (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 25 February 2010.