It is hard to decipher the punctuation point on the number plate on the old bus but the date has to be no later than 1932 because the 1931-32 plates were the last have the point in the middle. From the 1932-33 series on the point was always at the bottom - at least until after WW2.
The bus in your photo is not the Crawley Ridley bodied 1935 Reo which my Grandfather built for the Kelburn - Karori Bus Company along with the rest of their fleet over a number of years and which operated back and forward through the Karori tunnel. Rather, it shows one of the Wellington Corporation's six 1924 Mack buses, one bodied by Mack and the remaining five assembled by the tramways workshops from body kits supplied by the maker, running through the Northland tunnel in about 1929. The photo was certainly not taken by Dudley Kirker who became active in the field in the late 1940's.
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It is hard to decipher the punctuation point on the number plate on the old bus but the date has to be no later than 1932 because the 1931-32 plates were the last have the point in the middle. From the 1932-33 series on the point was always at the bottom - at least until after WW2.
The bus in your photo is not the Crawley Ridley bodied 1935 Reo which my Grandfather built for the Kelburn - Karori Bus Company along with the rest of their fleet over a number of years and which operated back and forward through the Karori tunnel. Rather, it shows one of the Wellington Corporation's six 1924 Mack buses, one bodied by Mack and the remaining five assembled by the tramways workshops from body kits supplied by the maker, running through the Northland tunnel in about 1929. The photo was certainly not taken by Dudley Kirker who became active in the field in the late 1940's.
Definitely before june 1929 due to lack of tram tracks and overhead.
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