Friday, February 20, 2009

Delivering the bread in Auckland

Lou Cowan has just written in with a couple of very old photos of his family's early bakery vehicles. Lou writes:

From 1882 until 1952 (or thereabouts) the Cowan family owned Cowan's Bakery in Auckland's Mt Eden. The bakery building, still standing in Mt Eden Road, still has the ovens inside but has long since ceased baking. The first photo shows great-uncle Claude Cowan on his classic commercial vehicle - a one horsepower delivery cart. The second photo shows a much later model. As near as I can determine it is a 1939 Ford Panel Truck. This one had a few more horsepower!

So, straight from the horse's mouth as it were. A challenge for the Kiwis (or maybe just the JAFAs...) - any one got a photo of the old Cowan bakery building as it is today?

2 comments:

  1. Grandad was always a fan of American Ford V8s ... this must have been his first!

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