Bolt Place – Named after George Bolt (1893-1963).Bolt was an aviator, aeronautical engineer and military leader. Several streets and aviation-related facilities in various New Zealand cities are named after him. Street named because of its proximity to Christchurch International Airport.
A small amount of information from the library website and they put the street into the Christchurch airport area. A tiny street with no footpath that leads to a few businesses.
There is a Wikipedia page for George Bolt plus many entries on Papers Past. He was born in Dunedin in 1893 and died in Auckland in 1963. He formed the Canterbury Aero Club in 1910. He also helped make and fly gilders on the Cashmere Hills. In Papers Past I found a photo of him flying a glider in the Cashmere Hills. Looked very different to today’s gliders. In 1919 he undertook the first airmail flight for letters within New Zealand. He was a RNZAF and Royal Airforce pilot in WW2. After the war he was the chief engineer for Tasman Empire Airways Ltd AKA TEAL.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 