• 2019-193.23
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Vivian Leonard Victor Crawshay personal collection. Fuselage of Vildebeest NZ106, upside down on the back of a truck. This aircraft crashed at night at RNZAF Station Ashburton on 24/3/38. Handwritten on the reverse "Vildebeest Wigram[sic] 1938."
    Crawshay
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Ashburton
    Vildebeest
    NZ106
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    accident
    damage
  • MUS030898
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. Personnel unloading 250 pound bombs from the back of a truck at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Burke
    World War Two
    WW2
    Hobsonville
    weapons
  • MUS030899
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. Personnel unloading 250 pound bombs from the back of a truck at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Burke
    World War Two
    WW2
    Hobsonville
    weapons
  • MUS980495
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Wigram redevelopment. Part of one of the Women's barracks on a truck waiting to be removed from behind the gymnasium.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Wigram
    redevelopment
  • MUS980492
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Wigram redevelopment. Wide view of one of the women's barracks on a truck waiting to be taken away from behind the gymnasium.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    redevelopment
    Wigram
  • LbG594-53
    RNZAF
    3/4 front view of a 10 ton wrecker truck. Canton Island, Kiribati.
    RNZAF
    Canton Island
    Kanton Island
    Kiribati
  • GisG616
    RNZAF
    No. 30 Squadron Avenger NZ2516 burning in a field with emergency vehicles in attendance near RNZAF Station Gisborne. Fire truck MT1275 at left. Date and aircraft identity assumed, as being the only accident at Gisborne which matches circumstances.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Gisborne
    Avenger
    accident
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    MT1275
    No. 30 Squadron
    30 Sqn
  • PRRef2-63-63
    RNZAF
    Exercise Reflex 2 at Rangitaiki airfield and RNZAF Station Ohakea. Bristol Freighters on the airfield at Rangitaiki, the front one unloading into an Army Bedford truck. NZ5911 (front), NZ5909 (second).
    RNZAF
    exercise
    training
    Reflex 2
    Rangitaiki
    B170
    Freighter
    NZ5911
    NZ5909
    Bedford
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
  • 2025-090.4
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Irene Elsie Jarman personal collection. Three drivers (armourers?) beside a bomb truck. Unknown location. L-R: Red Galloway, Harry Blair, Ron Pryce.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Jarman
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
  • ALB845871a015
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection. No. 3 Squadron maintenance personnel on the back of a truck. Guadalcanal. Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)" and "Off to work." Handwritten on the reverse "Our transport to airfield from camp at Guadalcanal."
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    WW2
    World War Two
    Tugby
    Guadalcanal
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    No. 3 Squadron
    3 Sqn
  • PR2624
    RNZAF
    A coal miner attaches a cable to a small coal truck. Granity. Original caption reads: "ATC Granity. " It is possible members of the Air Training Corps paid a visit to the mine.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Air Training Corps
    ATC
    Granity
  • PR2623
    RNZAF
    Group of coal miners leaning on a coal truck. Granity. Original caption reads: "ATC Granity." It is possible members of the Air Training Corps paid a visit to the mine.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Training Corps
    ATC
    Granity
  • PR2615
    RNZAF
    Patriotic parcels arrive for Christmas distribution on the back of truck. Unknown Pacific location.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Christmas
    Xmas
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
  • PR2622
    RNZAF
    Sawmill workers load timber onto the back of truck MT2256. Believed to be Arundel Island or Guadalcanal.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    MT2256
  • PR2616
    RNZAF
    Patriotic parcels (for Christmas distribution) are unloaded from the truck and placed into secure storage. Unknown Pacific location.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Christmas
    Xmas
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
  • PR2605
    RNZAF
    Smoko time for a group of aircraft maintenance personnel behind truck MT1184. Unknown Pacific location. Kittyhawk in the background.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    MT1184
    Kittyhawk
  • PR2606
    RNZAF
    Smoko time for a group of aircraft maintenance personnel behind truck MT1184. Unknown Pacific location. Kittyhawk in the background.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    MT1184
    Kittyhawk
  • PR2550
    RNZAF
    A member of the RNZAF holding bundles of mail. Possibly Bougainville. Jeep MT2055 and Canadian Ford truck in view.
    Ford
    NZ2055
    Jeep
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Bougainville
  • PR2553
    RNZAF
    Wireless Telegraphy Section camp scene (the first unit to begin normal operations). Believed to be Bougainville. Sign on the back of the truck reads "W-T Section, Signals Officer."
    Mechanical Transport
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    MT
    Bougainville
  • PR2546
    RNZAF
    Group of RNZAF personnel relax on a No. 4 Servicing Unit truck aboard a ship. Possibly en route to Bougainville.
    Navy
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    No. 4 Servicing Unit
    4 SU
  • PR2547
    RNZAF
    An airman onboard a ship, passes the time at sea by reading a book, while sitting on an International truck. Possibly en route to Bougainville.
    Navy
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    International
  • PR2543
    RNZAF
    Postmaster relaxing aboard ship, sitting on the cab of a No. 4 Servicing Unit truck. Possibly en route to Bougainville.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    No. 4 Servicing Unit
    4 SU
  • PR2513
    RNZAF
    Children play on an Air Training Corps mobile instructional unit, a Harvard mounted on the back of a truck. Presumed to be RNZAF Station Milson, Palmerston North.
    Palmerston North
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Air Training Corps
    ATC
    Milson
    Harvard
  • OhG244-68
    RNZAF
    Corporal Sollom filling the radiator in a Bedford truck during No. 75 Squadron Exercise Waltz Time at Kaikohe and Kerikeri.
    Sollom
    Bedford
    MT
    Mechanical TRansport
    75 Sqn
    No. 75 Squadron
    RNZAF
    Waltz Time
    exercise
    Kaikohe
  • PR2338
    RNZAF
    RNZAF personnel proceed by truck MT1169 to airstrip through a forest track. Guadalcanal. Jeep MT2121 in view.
    Guadalcanal
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    MT1169
    MT2121