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Pictorial Parade No. 35
Short Film (Full Length) – 1955
And so there he goes against more currents than one; an outstanding industrialist and inventor, whose choice it is to live far from the cities, through the snowy winters and dry summers of the remote McKenzie Plains.– The narrator, on Bill Hamilton
It's the thrill of a lifetime for veteran driver Ernie Peach as he drives the first of the new diesel rail cars on its maiden trip from Wellington to Napier. Almost as excited is Mr [John] McAlpine, Minister of Railways. "It's articulated" he gesticulated.– The narrator makes a play on words
Many a machine developed during the last 20 years had its first trials biting into this stony ground. The steel-fingered hand at the end of a steel-boned arm, with hydraulic muscles, is the latest of a long series of devices.– The narrator
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