The handwriting on the label of Mt Beautiful wines is that of Allan Teece, father of owner David Teece.
Allan Teece was born at Dovedale in Nelson’s Moutere Valley on 5 June 1915. After finishing school at Nelson Boys High, the 18-year-old started his own trucking company. Teece Transport pioneered the first regular freight service between Nelson and the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. He married Hazel Perry and in 1938 co-founded Transport Nelson with P.S. Boyes.
Allan served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in North Africa, Palestine and Italy from 1940 to 1945. The letters he wrote home in those years served as the visual inspiration for the design of the Mt Beautiful label. As he never had occasion to write these particular words, we composed the name from different fragments of his writing.
At the time of his premature death in 1972, Allan Teece was a director of Transport Nelson.