AUCKLAND ON WHEELS

00:38:26 ‘Auckland on Wheels. Taken by courtesy of the Auckland Transport Board’. ‘The Auckland Transport Board’s vehicles carry over 67 million passengers per annum’. ‘Do you realise that this means that Auckland’s entire population is carried once daily!’ ‘Gaunt Street Depot: Early morning despatch’. View of trams parked in depot building, trams drive off through yard. ‘Tramway Workshops, Mt Roskill, 135 men employed’. Traveling shot of workshop buildings. ‘Smithy’. Views in workshop of men working machinery. ‘Shearing machine. Steel is cut like cheese’. ‘Truck Shop’. High angle view of workshop. ‘Lifting car body from trucks’. Men hoist body of tram. ‘trucks run out for overhaul’. ‘Truck frames handled by traverser crane’. ‘Section of Machine Shop’. High angle view of men working in machine workshop. ‘Fitting and Turning Shop’. High angle view of men working in fitting and turning shop. ‘Electric Arc Welding’. ‘Wheel Lathe’. ‘Boring inside of tyre. Note the steel shavings’. ‘Placing a new tyre on wheel centre. Notice the gas jets heating the tyre. Cold water shrinks the tyre on.’ ‘Armature winding’. ‘Forming armature coil’. ‘Reinsulating copper conductors for electric motors by an efficient machine designed at the Works’. ‘Traveser conveying car between shops during overhaul.’ Trolley car on wheels. ‘View of woodworking shop’. Men working in woodworking shop, including tracking shots. ‘Modern woodworking machines - a planing machine in action’. ‘Each car goes through the paint shop once a year - when there are sufficient cars?’ Men painting trams in workshop. ‘Modern spray painting’. Man working with spray painting gun. ‘”Good Friday” at Epsom Depot Section of employees receiving their pay. The Transport Board regularly employs 1290.’ Men lined up in uniforms to get their pay, man hands out pay to workers. ‘Recreation rooms, Gaunt St. Depot. Library. Billard Room.’ Men playing cards, (draughts), pool. ‘Handling race traffic from Alexandra Park, Epsom’. Trams driving along road, people getting into trams. ‘Queen St’. Trams driving in Queen St, POV shot along tram lines. ‘Present Tram and Bus Routes, and Proposed Tram Extensions’ Rod points to map.