Motor vehicles throughout New Zealand. A motor assembly plant and Technical Institute for specialised training of qualified mechanics within the Dealers Service Dept.
'PACIFIC FILM UNIT presents'
'A Nation On Wheels'
'Sponsored by 'GENERAL MOTORS' New Zealand Limited. Chevrolet, Vauxhall, Bedford, Pontiac , Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, GMC
'Produced by ROGER MIRAMS'
Traffic on city street.
Auckland's CIVIC THEATRE on the corner of Wellesley and Queen street.
CANTERBURY HOTEL to the right of screen, stock truck driving down road, mountains in background.
A family walking along Oriental Parade, Wellington, advance toward their car and 3 children get into the back seat.
View of plane on runway being watched by 3 women and a man standing next to a KIWI bus with Johnston's BLUE MOTORS Ph.42.000 written on door.
Plane and bus in background, man standing on gangway. KIWI bus drives by with passengers on board.
A loaded Inter-Island Freight Service Ltd truck drives by. Men are in background.
DOMINION MONARCH unloading Vauxhall car cases to men on wharf.
Assembly workers at plant.
Car crates being carried by overhead crane to another department.
Man directing where crate is to be placed.
Man using hand rotary saw to cut tops off crates for speedy unpacking of parts.
Man using hand rotary saw.
men unpacking roof panels from crates. Roof panels, engines and guards are big items among the thousands of separate parts in a modern car.
men stacking car guards. Man drives by on forklift with a pallet of parts.
Assembly worker in Body Shop spot welding.
Assembly worker spot welding.
Assembly worker spot welding.
Assembly worker spot welding. Workers in background rubbing down car.
Man placing roof panel onto car being assembled.
Man setting up precisely set jigs to hold panels true as welders go to work.
Welder putting on safety glasses and begins to weld.
Welder at work.
Welder at work.
welders at work on vehicle body.
welders removing jigs to reveal car body's strength and rigidity of its gradual streamline.
Man in white coat checking out assembly line. The factory runs a dual assembly line 1: Car Bodies 2:Truck Cabs assembled in a similar way.
Car body enters ventilated grinding booth.
Worker dressed in full protection gear proceeds to grind off any rough metal surfaces with emery discs and buffs.
Worker giving car body an acid and steam bath to completely clean before painting.
men spray painting car body. Each body gets 3 coats primer baked to 300 deg. and then 5 coats of colour.
Workers in Trim Dept. 2 men gluing strips, machinists at work car and truck bodies in background.
Worker putting trims on car.
Maori worker.
men hot riveting.
Man operating cold riveter. In contrast to the noisy hot riveter this modern cold riveter with the pressure of 35 tons per square inch is silent.
Man with engine on pulley.
men lining up car to install engine.
supervisors checking vehicles. Tune-up, inspection, adjustment and tests ensure that no detail is overlooked.
Vehicle inspection.
Man starting car and drives out of workshop.
Couple inspecting car at dealers showroom.
Couple talking.
Car salesman.
Full inspection being given.
Truck in Christchurch showroom.
men in office. One a North Canterbury farmer looking for an all purpose truck.
Business being discussed.
New truck on its way to the farm. Snow-capped hills in background.
Farmer opens gate for truck while young boy excitedly runs and jumps on the deck,followed by a boy on horseback and dogs.
Farmer in cab smiles and alights.
men on back of truck feeding out hay to sheep in paddock.
dogs standing on hay at back of truck PANS to show men feeding out hay.
Truck operating top-dressing unit in paddock.
Bull on back of truck.
Lambs being loaded onto top deck of stock transporter.
transporters leaving sheep yards.
trucks transporting wool bales.
trucks transporting wool bales.
Boy waving to cream truck driver, proceeding down the road toward Mt Egmont/Mt Taranaki in background .
Cream truck and Mt Egmont/Mt Taranaki
Up North, a r refrigerator trailer van carries frozen products through out the Auckland province .
Cameron Horse Floats arrive at a Waikato stud farm.
Stable hands? prepare to remove horses from floats into a nearby stable. Horses have covers on.
Moving South to the State Forest Of Rotor Rotorua, a logging truck driver boards his truck.
logging trucks on forest road advance toward camera.
logging trucks.
Logging truck arriving at mill.
Logging truck arriving at mill.
A wire rope wrapped round logs is pulled to remove logs from truck .
Vast new hydroelectric power scheme at Mangakino where trucks are operating.
A crane operating at an Auckland quarry loading a truck with gravel.
Truck being loaded by an overhead hopper.
Trucks operating at quarry.
Winstone trucks arriving at plant.
buses from Queenstown, Timaru and Christchurch driving along road. Mountains in background.
buses from Queenstown, Chris Christchurch, Timaru and the Hermitage, winding their way up the slopes of Mt Co ok. Mountains and plains in the background.
Ambulance leaves yard . Wellington?
Tow truck with vehicle in tow PANS to show vehicle s entering L.H. Johnston Motors Ltd.
Mechanics working and checking out vehicles in workshop.
Mechanic using grease gun on underside of vehicle overhead.
Mechanic using grease gun on underside of vehicle overhead. Mechanic under vehicle on stand.
Mechanic running down stairway in workshop, enters a low entrance to overhead work pit advances toward camera, ducks down as a truck (with Invercargill written on door) is driven overhead.
Another mechanic appears from the left of screen, side by side they work on truck.
Man pushes trolley with exhaust parts on it PANS to show spare parts section, people in background.
Man checks his list for parts, man to his right stands on ladder doing the same. Here in an area equivalent to 40 houses roll-on, roll-off bins provide storage for a wide variety of parts over 30,000 different vehicle parts being listed.
Men and women in large office typing and checking lists.
women and a man checking files.
men in office checking files.
Within the assembly plant a Technical Institute gives specialised training to qualified mechanics from Dealers Service Depts. through out the Dominion, as this Tutor is doing for this round table group of mechanics.
Man taking notes.
Man taking notes.
Tutor with adult students (all dressed in knee length white coats) showing them the practical up-to-date new developments.
school buses waiting for school children.
Children boarding bus.
Children boarding bus, taken from driver's side.
Children boarding bus.
Buses leaving school grounds. Mountain in background. [Ruapehu.]
Man sanding vehicle.
School bus driving down road towards mountains in background.
'THE END A PACIFIC FILM UNIT PRODUCTION'