cars on old US 101, Pismo Beach, California, 1950s

Note the 101 Cafe.

Ford V8 buses with NZMB bodies in the Palmerston North Square in the immediate post-WW2 years

A reader or two will know what the colors were.  The old hotel building in the background on the Church Street corner is still there.

'I'd love to have a wall of real books at home'

1972 Mercury Marquis Brougham advertisement

a long passenger train descends the Rimutaka Incline, NZ, November 1955

One of the special trains run just before closure of the line, at the Siberia Curve. This was later washed out with a build-up of water from blocked drainage.

When ascending tthe 3-mile (5-km) inclined section there were 4 Fell engines spaced through the train, but when descending they were all placed at the front.  For lots more, see the book New Zealand 1950s Steam in Colour compiled from the Derek Cross collection.

1961 Volvo P1800

1961 Plymouth Fury sedan

 The two-door hardtop version--

1961 Ebro B-45 2 truck

Ebro trucks was a Spanish brand of light and medium trucks and buses, as well as all-wheel-drive utility vehicles between 1954 and 1987 when it was absorbed in Nissan.

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an NZR Fiat railcar model

In Sn3.5 (1:64) scale, usually just referred to as S scale in NZ. It uses HO scale track which with the bigger proportions of the vehicles better represents that 3'6" narrow gauge appearance of the real thing.

Sydney double-decker Leyland Titan bus in 1969

The 160 bus to Collaroy showing the Manly Lagoon at Queenscliffe. (John Ward pic)

The approximate view today