In the days before most people had cars, grocers would employ schoolboys/schoolgirls using bicycles like this to do delivery runs to customers to earn pocket money. Taylorville is a township on the north side of the Grey River not far from Greymouth; the map on the wall is unrelated. (Sue Lusk pic)
I ended up painting one like this for a retiring manager from Pak n Save, who started his career with a 4 SQUARE store which was on the centre panel under the frame. Was not that easy to paint either!!
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