Advances in technology now allow us to host and showcase large amounts of data, allowing for the creation of a digital archive of the New Zealand road transport environment.
This site will allow you to see much of the unseen footage from the ‘Truck Files – A New Zealand Story’ doco shown on Prime – which goes hand-in-glove with much of what has been shot over the previous twenty years for the Truck Files series of DVD’s, footage that snap-shotted aspects of our industry for prosperity.
Our aim is provide a strongroom for those clips, and others with an historical significance that might otherwise be lost to us.
We are not saying that you will want to wade through everything that is here, but collectively it forms a resource that will allow the industry to both promote itself, and serve as an ever expanding archive of the industry.
We are in the process of producing more doco’s of the industry using footage from this archive, to be hosted on this site, or for future tv-viewing.
Our Subscribers will be kept in the loop regarding these projects.
The clip above is a good example of what we wish to save. One known copy of the building of the 1000th Mack for Southern Transport, courtesy of the TR Group.
As severely degraded as it is – it is history gold – as is anything else there like it .
VHS is very vulnerable – it degrades and is easy to tape over.
Let’s hunt out what remaining nuggets we still have of our history.
Contact the Archivist here should you have content that you believe should be saved, and safeguard it on this site, for others to appreciate.
