Neil wrote:

Nice Mark! Look at those brand new 46As for the Ministry of Jerks - presumably working on the Twizel projects. There's still one there, in a park alongside an International 4 wheel tractor scraper. And that one of the D4 giant discing scrub - that's what Dad and his brother did with D2s back in the day. Worked up a lot of country out east of Masterton. My cousin's D2 had a Birtley blade on it but I don't know his serial #

Looks like one of those in the photo with all the 46A's  is a D9, check out the stack on the tractor on the right.

Wombat
 

Also check out the hose coming from the air cooled clutch/brake duct on the D9. The original in seat heater maybe???

Blowing up the photo shows there are two D9's. The one with the ripper in the background that is next to the truck is a 9 also. Can't make out the other tractor behind the left dozer but it is probably another D8.
Pretty sharp eyes OM to notice the seat heater!!

Hi looking at those photos no 1and 2 probably the airport in Auckland the photo with the concrete batcher in it at the diversion of one of the hydro stations probably in the Nth Island the one with the D9s and D8 is diverting the Waitaki River in the Sth Island for the Vendors hydro daminthe early 60s Cheers

Try Benmore dam in the early 60s hydro power

Hi, Folks.
Some interesting and good quality photos there for sure. Thank you Marksd3 for sharing.

Here are 3 more that, if they aren't in those archives, oughta be there. They are of stretched D8s, the SD8 LGP tractors used in Antarctica, taken at Gough's facility at, I think, Auckland, while in for their 5 year refurbishment.



Just my 0.02.

Hi no these were tacken at Goughs in Christchurch will try and find out who gentleman is in the second photo is they were shipped back to Lyttleton then by road over the hill to Goughs service Dept in hornby Goughs Head Office is in Christchurch The anractic work was big enough in those early days to have thier own division as I understand all came to a halt in the early 80s

The top pic tractor has a D353 engine in it.

Thanks for the replies chaps!

Neil, 18 months or so ago I was working in Twizel and called into a little small bookshop and found this very interesting book 'Deisel, Dust, Men and Machine' which is all about the huge hydro projects completed in the area last century, the contractors and the machinery they used:
 
If the pic you mention is indeed the Benmore project, I think the D8's and D9's in the picture you mention are most likely MoW machines. The contractors that actually worked on the project are listed towards the bottom of this page:
 
But as most of the work on the diversion project was completed by August 1960 the D8's are most likely MoW machines although they could be Burnett Construction machines:
 
 
The D9's are again most likely MoW machines but one of them could be Wilf Evans' machine: