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Commercial Vehicles - DVDs
B-Train Bonanza 1 Trucks (New.) 75 minutes; DVD; CPP Productions; 2008. Returns will only be accepted should the disk be faulty. (Features B-trains working across Canada, the Michigan millipedes and specialist operations in Sweden. Spectacular trucks and spectacular scenery.) DVV23245 $64.00
Bulkhaul 1 And 2 Two DVDs Trucks (New) Returns will only be accepted should the disks be faulty. 153 minutes in total; CPP Video. (First DVD covers trucks at work in North America, Britain and Western Australia and the second features New Zealand, Australia and Finland.) DVV23247 $98.00
Bedford – You Saw Them Everywhere Trucks (New.) 53 minutes; DVD; Roundoak. Returns will only be accepted should the disk be faulty. (6 archive films from 1953 to 1973 featuring various Bedford models and the applications they worked.) DVV23246 $68.00
Construction Of Haast To Haast Pass Earthmoving (New) coloured 65 .minutes; DVD; Tas Smith. Returns will only be accepted should the disk be faulty. (Between 1956 and 1960 Contract Cultivation of Dunedin built State Highway 6 between Haast Pass and Haast. Film taken during construction shows the difficult terrain and the challenges the company faced getting the road through. Tough on men and machines, this is earthmoving at its best.) DVV23240 $38.00
Cross Canada Haul Trucks (New.) 60 mins DVD; CPP Video; 2005. Returns will only be accepted should the disk be faulty. (A varied selection from Pacific logging trucks on Vancouver Island, moving oil rigs in Alberta, hauling rock salt in Saskatoon to drag racing in Quebec.) DVV23248 $68.00
Doing The Impassable Earthmoving (New.) Returns will only be accepted should the disk be faulty. 35 minutes; coloured and black and white footage; Contract Cultivation; 2005.(A history of Contract Cultivation, founded in Timaru by Jock Smith in the mid 1930s and later transferred to Dunedin. Covers all major earthmoving jobs done by the company and interviews with former staff members.) DVV22300 $30.00
Fifties Freight Trucks (New) 60 minutes; British Commercial Vehicle Museum. (Three films made between 1952 and 1957 covering ‘The Fish Run’ [Aberdeen to London], motor vehicle manufacturing, and ‘The Scarab Mechanical horse’) DVV23249 $65.00
Fulton Hogan Heavy Haulage Various Videos and Slide Show Earthmoving (New.) Various Videos and Slide Show coloured and black and white footage; DVD; 45;minutes; Vidpro Video; 2007. Returns will only be accepted should the disk be faulty. (A selection of films of various heavy haulage activities done by Fulton Hogan, Dunedin over the past 30 years.) DVV23242 $35.00
Golden Years Of British Haulage Trucks (New.)70 minutes; New. Roundoak; 2005. Returns will only be accepted should the disk be faulty. (100 nostalgic photographs of working British trucks from the 1950s and 1960s taken by Peter Davies.) DVV23250 $60.00
Ice Road Truckers Trucks (New.) 180 minutes; DVD; CPC Prods. Returns will only be accepted should the disk be faulty. (Follows a convoy of six trucks over a two month period delivering supplies to Canada’s far north on the most dangerous road in the world, a 350 mile strip of ice.) DVV23252 $74.00
Leyland 100 A century of Progress Trucks 55 minutes; DVD; Johnson Prods. Returns will only be accepted should the disk be faulty. (The history of Leyland as a truck and bus builder, once the largest producer in the Western world, then collapse and rebuild. Many classic scenes, with a concentration on buses built.) DVV23253 $60.00
Loaded And Rollin’ Trucks (New.) 70 minutes; New; New; Roundoak. Returns will only be accepted should the disk be faulty. (Recording A-trains working in Alaska, Canada, USA, Sweden, UK and Australia in the 21st century.) DVV23254 $63.00
Manapouri – The Toughest Tunnel Earthmoving (New) 50 minutes; mint copy; TVNZ; 2002. (Tells the story of the building of the second Manapouri Tunnel and the challenges involved.) DVV23243 $39.00
Project D – Story Of The Ford D Series Trucks Trucks (New.) Returns will only be accepted should they be faulty. 64 minutes; DVD; CPP Video; 2010. (Four archive colour films from Ford library regarding the development and testing of Ford’s new model, introduced in 1965 and was in production for 15 years.) DVV23257 $55.00
Southall Twilight Last Days of AEC Trucks (New.) 62 minutes; DVD; Johnson Prods; 2007. Returns will only be accepted should the disk be faulty. (A collection of three films: Road test of an AEC Mandator V8, The New European and This is the Marathon. The last two are about the Leyland Marathon and includes scenes from Southall.) DVV23259 $57.00
The Back Of Beyond Trucks 65 minutes; DVD; Film Australia. Returns will only be accepted should the disk be faulty. (This 1954 classic follows an outback mailman as carrier Tom Kruse makes his fortnightly run between Morree in South Australia and Birdsville in Queensland, a distance of 300 miles. Originally filmed by Shell Oil.) DVV23261 $55.00
The Story Of The Shap Trucks (New) 55 minutes; CPC Video; 2010. (Reflections on one of the toughest roads in UK with journeys in the 1950s and 1960s as well as in restored vehicles.) DVV23260 $55.00
West Coast Revisited Trucks 60 minutes; DVD; CPP Video; 2005. Returns will only be accepted should the disk be faulty. (From Canada to Mexico, features trucks at work hauling bulk loads, concrete beams, concrete mixer trucks, general freight and the colourful painted trucks of Mexico.) DVV23262 $65.00
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History of British Pavements Earthmoving (New.)
January 2012 Returns will only be accepted
should the disk be faulty. 90minutes; black and white and coloured
footage; DVD; Vidpro; 2011. (A tribute to this innovative Christchurch
road building and sealing company with 80% of the DVD featuring old
movies from the mid 1920s to the early 1980s, with the other 20% being a
slide presentation of historic photographs.) DVV24243 $45.00