Christchurch a city of light chronicles the history of the Municipal Electricity Department (MED) and the role electricity played in the development of Christchurch prior to the formation of...
"Issued to consumers by the Municipal Electricity Department, Christchurch, New Zealand." A small cook book advertising the benefits of cooking with electric appliances including recipes.
Scenes of Municipal Electricity Department workers lowering their colleague, Sammy Hurunui to the ground and laying him flat during a simulated electric shock incident and rescue.
MED float in the 100 years of Progress procession, float 61 in the Canterbury Centennial celebrations.
Wood stave tank and electric truck in front of the former main office of the Municipal Electricity Department which is under demolition.
Ferguson Pailin switch gear at Armagh Street station.
Lines department staff standing outside the Municipal Electricity Department building on Manchester Street.
Shelves of tools in store at the Municipal Electricity Department.
Portrait of Edwin Hallett Mace, Chief Engineer for the Municipal Electricity Department.
Portrait of Wilfred Gordon Johnstone.
Operation of the LT switch at the Clarendon Street substation.
Installation of street lamps on St Asaph Street.
Firefighters attending a damaged substation at Moncks Spur.
Firefighters attending a substation at Moncks Spur damaged by a concrete mixer truck.
Poles stored in the yard at the Municipal Electricity Department depot on Packe Street.
Demolition of the Victoria Street substation.
Armagh Street district substation site.
Substation on West Watson Avenue.
Chris Digby, Neville Digby, and Ted McCulloch beside the Walker electric truck at the Edwardian Festival.
Municipal Electricity Department mobile crane on Salisbury Street.
Municipal Electricity Department mobile crane on Park Terrace.
S. Davis in a hydraulic platform truck outside the Municipal Electricity Department.