Dead cars in place of carcasses

The former Burnside freezing works site is rapidly filling with car corpses now the work of carving cattle carcasses has been cast aside.

This recent photo shows the site, owned by Kaikorai Property Investments Ltd, is now a popular home for the car-wrecking industry.

Last year, there were 3,463,131 registered vehicles in New Zealand.

The freezing works opened in 1883, the year after the first first shipment of frozen meat from Dunedin, and finally closed in 2008.