Brownlee and Co's Barclay Duplex crossing Couper's (Cooper) bridge, Rai Valley. On the back of the original photograph "Engine new in 1906, made by Barclay Kilmarnock, Scotland. Later sold to Butler Bros. Westland."
<p>There is also a copy of this photograph with the information "bridge...built in 1906. This bridge was over a valley dip over the river from Couper's accommodation house on the main road from Canvastown to the Pelorus."
The three men discernable in the cab are Hadfield Smith, Bert Baggitt and Alf Barton (there are five men in the cab). Harry Spiers is on the line.
A photograph of ships at a wharf has been glued onto the bottom of the original photograph, this is not included on the copy.
The copy was made in 1959 for the Historical Exhibition.
</p><p>People:
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<ul><li>Smith, Hadfield</li>
<li>Barton, Alfred</li>
<li>Baggett, Bert</li>
<li>Spiers, Harry</li></ul>
Unknown photographer
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Object ID: 2008.165.0130