September 22, 2014
There was everything from draught horses and steam engines, to chaff cutters and Mack trucks at the Kingaroy & District Vintage Machinery Club’s annual rally at the weekend.
The two-day event, at the club’s grounds near Kingaroy Airport, attracted all sorts of machinery from near and far – more than 100 vintage tractors, 65 stationery engines, classic cars, veteran bikes and four Clydesdale horses.
It also attracted a good crowd which enjoyed tractor sled pulling contests, a huge grand parade plus displays of chaff cutting, corn husking and ploughing (by horse and by tractor).
A large display of stationery engines continued to chuff away all day.
Barry Byrne, from the Toowoomba and District Old Machinery Society, was the voice behind the microphone who kept spectators filled in about what was happening in the arena.
He said he was impressed with the turnout of machinery, especially Steve Hood’s 1910 Case Traction Engine which led out the grand parade (see video, below) and also took a turn at the sled pull.
Barry said he also enjoyed seeing some of the early crawler tractors in action including a 1938 TD35 …”there’s not many of those around”.
A 1922 Waterloo Boy, owned by Albert Brimblecombe from Highfields, also attracted Barry’s praise.
“It’s the green and yellow tractor before John Deere. There’s a lot of history in that,” Barry said.
One of the more modern vehicles in the parade was equally rare.
The bright red “Jack 8” was a specially commissioned topless Jackaroo V8 coupe built in 2002 for Holden but never put into production.
Kingaroy & District Vintage Machinery Club member Russell Dower told southburnett.com.au it had been a very good rally, with lots of visitors from other clubs.
This is the second year the rally has been held at the club’s grounds in Kingaroy, after relocating from Kumbia.
Members have been working hard to develop the area into a purpose-built arena, and this year unveiled a new ablution block in time for the rally.
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Raw video from the rally:
- External link: More videos on YouTube
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More Photos From The Rally & Grand Parade
Thank you South Burnett Online for excellent coverage on our club’s 2014 rally
We had a wonderful weekend at Kingaroy displaying our Grey and Gold Diesel Ferguson 35 tractor at the Vintage tractor weekend. Thankyou to all the club members for making us so welcome! From Tilly Farming Company at Condamine and Miles, Qld
Thank you for the really great coverage of the rally but it really would have been nice to do a story or two in the lead up to the rally to help let people know it was happening.
This community event attracts significant numbers of visitors to Kingaroy from all over.
We are a not for profit club.
That means we are not a commercial business. We rely on support from members who put a superhuman effort in to make this happen but let down through lack of interest from media in the lead up to the event.
Everywhere we turned to ask for help to promote our community event we were asked to pay $500 just to get the story out there.
Anywhere else the local papers and radio would have been all over this prior to the event and telling people about it.
Thanks for the support really it is appreciated but we really needed it prior to the event.