Porter Motors Ltd and Furniture Services, Rangitikei Street
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Furniture Services Ltd was located at 124 Rangitikei Street, with Porter Motors Ltd's temporary premises next door. Porter Motors originally traded as Fowler & Porter but separated into two entities in 1935. In 1976 the company opened a new building with repair bays and and a spare parts department on Tremaine Avenue, and in 1980 added a CNG supply facility. In 1971 Porter Motors was sold to the Shelley Group, who onsold the 62 employee company February 1982.
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- Public Photograph Collection Bc 450
- Date
- 1953
- Digitisation id
- 2009P_Bc450_BUI_2622
- Held in
- Coolstore
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Creation
- Created By
- Unknown
- Place
- 124 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Object rights
- License
- No Known Restrictions
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