Pedal car added to museum exhibits

Posted by: Auto Buff  /  Category: Motoring

The 1958 photograph was reproduced in the Otago Daily Times' Within Living Memory column on January 9 last year, which led to the Otago Settlers Museum purchase. The teacher was named as Mrs VM Morton but the children were not named. Photo from Evening Star.
Otago Settlers Museum curator Peter Read with a newly bought  pedal car used as a traffic education tool in New Zealand primary schools in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Photo by Craig Baxter.

A popular weekly photo feature in the Otago Daily Times has
led to the Otago Settlers Museum securing a slice of
“motoring” history.

It has made a rare purchase, buying a pedal car used as a
traffic education tool in New Zealand primary schools to add
to its transport collection.

A 1958 Evening Star photograph showing a boy in a pedal car
taking part in a traffic education lesson at Mornington
School was reproduced in January last year as a Saturday
“Within Living Memory” image from the past.

Settlers Museum curator Peter Read said a reader saw the

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