Collectors' Corner: Ministry of Transport memorabilia

Glen Cockroft holds an old MOT hat beside one of the patrol cars (PHOTO: Supplied)

A display of one of every parking meter that was ever installed in Invercargill (the first one on the far left was 1954) (PHOTO: Supplied)

One of the many glass display cases which contain the many various exhibits on display within the 300sq meter building (PHOTO: Supplied)

Part display of various Ministry of Transport uniforms (PHOTO: Supplied)

Ernest Stopford, Invercargill City Council’s first Motor and Traffic Inspector who was appointed in February 1924. (PHOTO: Supplied)

The early Breath testing equipment from the 70’s etc – the Drager Alcotest R80A Breath test tubes – referred to as “blowing in the bag” (PHOTO: Supplied)