Lesley Ballinger, from Crawford, was checking out this early model Case tractor

October 7, 2024

The Kingaroy & District Vintage Machinery Club’s recent weekend rally attracted a huge range of historic and quirky vehicles to the club’s grounds near Kingaroy Airport.

There was everything from a fully restored Kingaroy fire engine – making its first official public appearance – to a one-off one-cylinder working stationary engine hand-built by Gold Coast enthusiast Eric Owen.

The statistics show the range of items for enthusiasts to peruse: by Saturday afternoon there were 113 tractors, 18 cars and 34 trucks in the grounds (and possibly even a few more!).

There were grand parades for the crowds to enjoy as well as slow tractor races, tractor pulling displays, working stationary engines as well as demonstrations of farm machinery, including corn threshing.

Many of the owners of the machinery on show camped at the grounds, which led to volunteers from Kingaroy State School catering for 250 people on Saturday night!

Gerald Goodger, from Kingaroy, with a 1948 Allis Chambers three-wheeler which originally worked in the Silverleaf Weir area
Bruce Mullan, from Victoria Point, is a life member of the Pine Rivers Historic Machinery Restoration Society … Bruce brought along this rare L5 Yanmar diesel tractor motor from about 1968
Eric Owen with his handbuilt one-cylinder “hit and miss” motor … Eric did all the design work and machining of “The Owen” (serial number #00001) which took 2½ years to build
Ivan Rapley, from Cordalba, is a member of the Rum City Vintage Machinery
Skylah Crswford, 9, was hitching a ride in this mini-Jeep with Lewis Jenkinson, from Kingaroy
The sled pull is always a popular event at the rally … this Field Marshall crawler was making steady progress down the course
Another popular event is the general parade … which is held several times on Saturday and Sunday

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Gallery Of Photos

There was a big display of trucks and other vehicles as well as tractors and farm machinery at the 2024 event: 

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Still photos from Saturday afternoon’s parade (for enthusiasts only!):

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