Fords, Holdens, Chryslers and Mitsubishis: Police cars through the years
NZ Police Museum Historic New Zealand police cars include the Holden EH Special. On August 25, 1920, the first recorded instance of investigating police using a motor car to attend the scene of a crime occurred following the murder (the previous day) of Sydney Seymour Eyre at Tuakau in South Auckland. Over the next 30 years, police got by on the smell of the proverbial oily rag, having to share the cost of running the vehicles with other Government departments. Police had to rely on a succession of unreliable second hand, mismatched examples. Stuff Transport Minister Peter Gordon talking ...
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