Cadillac service cars at Rongotai Airport, Wellington, circa 1950
Before the airport was given a massive redevelopment in the 1950s. For more, see the book Wellington: a Capital century
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Owned and operated by Billy Higgs. Car on left was ex Newmans North Island No 6, Cadillac 353 fitted with a Waukesha engine and finally scrapped in Gisborne in the 1970's. Car on the right is one of the No 1 to 5 series of Cadillac 355's. Crawley Ridley bodies.
Those Cadillac service cars were beautiful machines, and must have offered a reasonable amount of comfort on our fairly primitive main roads of the time. There is a nice example in the Packard & Pioneer Museum at Maungatapere, Northland.
The Cadillac 341 Bevan refers to was bodied as a hearse in Wellington. When acquired by the late Ron Roycroft it was fitted with a false boot and extra seats and was passed off as a service car, which it never was and was later sold to the late Graeme Craw. Thus is history altered by the uncaring.
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Owned and operated by Billy Higgs. Car on left was ex Newmans North Island No 6, Cadillac 353 fitted with a Waukesha engine and finally scrapped in Gisborne in the 1970's. Car on the right is one of the No 1 to 5 series of Cadillac 355's. Crawley Ridley bodies.
Those Cadillac service cars were beautiful machines, and must have offered a reasonable amount of comfort on our fairly primitive main roads of the time. There is a nice example in the Packard & Pioneer Museum at Maungatapere, Northland.
The Cadillac 341 Bevan refers to was bodied as a hearse in Wellington. When acquired by the late Ron Roycroft it was fitted with a false boot and extra seats and was passed off as a service car, which it never was and was later sold to the late Graeme Craw. Thus is history altered by the uncaring.
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