Oh man -- "You love a Loline -- It's almost like a Raleigh Twenty"

The Bats are pretty C&V themselves at this point, but still making perfect Kiwipop.


Not being from NZ myself, I was not aware of the Loline, but the video seems to nail it.

https://teara.govt.nz/en/bicycles/page-2

Morrison and Healing

In 1963 Morrison Industries began producing bikes almost completely from New Zealand-made parts. The new Glenbrook steel mill provided the raw material, and the government helped the local bike manufacturer by reducing bicycle import quotas by 90%. In the 1970s, 90% of all bikes sold in New Zealand were locally made.

Healing Industries started manufacturing bicycles in 1967 and had early successes with the Loline, which, with its 20-inch (50-centimetre) wheel, competed with the imported Raleigh 20. Healing’s Dragster was the local equivalent of the Raleigh Chopper, with a central gear shift and motorcycle-style seat. In the late 1970s Healing Industries produced up to 700 10-speeds a day for the local and export markets.

End of local manufacturing

Morrison and Healing produced some of the first BMX and mountain bikes in the 1980s. However, after the lifting of import restrictions in the late 1980s, allowed in cheaper bikes from Asia, both companies were bought by Masport Group which ceased manufacturing bicycles. Sheppard Industries continued to assemble Avanti bikes from imported parts.

Healing made quite a pile of roadbikes back in the 1980s too .
Their own ''gas pipe '' creations called Skylarks and bunch of others
Also built Peugeot frames under license here in little old NZ