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Photographs of Ilfracombe by Bill Harris

$The busted wheel - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> Years ago, horses bolted with this mower and smashed a wheel on a rock. Mr Davidson, the owner at the time, made a cement wheel as a replacement.$

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The busted wheel - Ilfracombe, Queensland
Years ago, horses bolted with this mower and smashed a wheel on a rock. Mr Davidson, the owner at the time, made a cement wheel as a replacement.

Ilfracombe Locations Machinery Queensland Sundry

$Plough - Ilfracombe, Queensland$
$Queensland Rail, KSA Wagon - Ilfracombe, Queensland$
$Ransome Steam Engine - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> From Tara Station Barcaldine$
$Republic Truck - Ilfracombe, Queensland$
$Road Plough - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> Pulled by 10 horses and used for Dam sinking$
$Sheep Jetter - Ilfracombe, Queensland$
$Steam Engine - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> Manufactured by Robison Brothers & Co, South Melbourne, and used for many years on Isis Downs for pumping water and driving the station saw bench.$
$Steam Engine - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> This 3 H.P. Steam engine was owned by Tom Sleeman of Barcaldine and was used to drill many bore holes in the Central West.$
$Tambo Hospital Hot Water Boiler - Ilfracombe, Queensland$
$TD 35 McCormick-Deering 37 h.p. Diesel tractor - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> The tractor was manufactured between 1936 and 1939. It started on petrol and ran on diesel. It was used on farms in Dalby and Clermont. It finished it's working life being used for fire-ploughing, finally being abandoned in Denton.$
$The 1924 Fordson - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> Was used to pull a drawn grader, for sawing firewood and pulling a hay baler.$
$The Big Hayfield Crawler - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> An Allis Chalmers, K series Kerosene tractor, 50 H.P. Weighing 51/4 tons. Purchased late 1936 by Jim Pidgeon this was he first crawler in the area. Using a 1 1/2 yard Baker scoop, the machine was used on significant projects at Wakefield Station, Isisford and Royston Station, Ilfracombe.<br /> The plant was requisitioned by the army during World War 2 and Jim went as the operator. It was used to help build the dirt highway from Tambo to Blackall, and then the Longreach Airstrip. It was then used to build numerous dams in the channel country, some for Sir Sydney Kidman.$
$The Big Pump - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> This 12" pump was used at Wellshot Station, Rodney Downs and Navarre Station to pump up dams.$
$The busted wheel - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> Years ago, horses bolted with this mower and smashed a wheel on a rock. Mr Davidson, the owner at the time, made a cement wheel as a replacement.$
$The Hartree Full-Track - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> A 1930 model Fordson made in Cork, Ireland.<br /> Hartree in Morella purchased it second hand. It was originally a wheeled model. The tracks came from an older model Fordson.. Used for pushing the WEIR grader & pulling a scoop.$
$Tractor - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> A 1919 Model 27 H.P. Tractor. Killed a man while cranking it on The Darling Downs. Sold to Hereward Station, Morella in 1922, when it replaced 28 horses. It was used to pull a Comet Fire-plough and had a tendency to rear up.$
$Tractor - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> This 1917 Ruston Kerosene tractor is one of only 3 remaining in the world and was the forerunner to the Caterpillar tractor.<br /> One of 443 manufactured, this machine was used in the building of the Longreach to Winton railway line in 1925.$
$Tumbling Tommy - Ilfracombe, Queensland<br /> Commonly used for holding kitchen scraps, then taken away and emptied$
$Tumbling Tommy Scoop - Ilfracombe, Queensland$
$Tutt Bryant Limited - Ilfracombe, Queensland$

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