There’s been a real extravaganza at the Glen Innes Showground over the weekend – a display of the machinery that made an economy. It’s been a feast of nostalgia and enthusiasm for engineering.
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The most spectacular items at the Vintage Truck and Machinery Show were the vehicles – the trucks from the 50s, 60s and 70s (and even before) made by companies which have long gone under (who remembers Leyland now or Austin?)
These heavy-lifting vehicles were put through their paces, towing machinery.
And there were the engines, everything from small apple-peelers to the engines which powered shearing sheds and threshing machines before the age of the tractor (a tractor is an engine which moves under its own power – many of the engines at the Showground had to be moved in place and then powered by coal or kerosene).
The display was of the way this economy kept moving - the trucks that trucked the produce of New England out to the markets of the world and the engines which kept the produce flowing from the paddocks and sheds).
The show brought together enthusiasts who renovate the machines and displayed them at the Showground with panache.