farm equipmentColour photograph, Mr. W. Grigg with horses and dray, Bungaree 1990.buninyong, w. grigg, horses, dray, bungaree

The photograph show Leslie Iredale a Greensborough resident on his dray with a load of bricks.The Iredale family are a pioneering family of Greensborough.A black and white photograph with the photographer's stamp on the rear.Photographer's stamp reading "Printed by - Qualspeed Photo Service 99 Nicholson St Footscray. 24 hour service - Phone 68-3639" Also, black biro inscription on rear.iredale, bricks, dray, industry, transport, horses

Horse and dray sign welcoming traffic.horse and dray: sign welcoming traffic: g.o.r

Photograph containing a large steel beam on a long dray with gentleman sitting on top of the beam. Several horses are in front of the dray and power pole in the backgroundThompson & Co Makers Castlemainethompsons foundry

Photograph showing tipping dray at Mt. Defianceg.o.r; tipping-dray: mt. defiance;

A Dray is a type of dead axle wagon that was used to transport heavy loads or objects. They had a flat level floor and while some had no sides, others had box bodies and sides. Tip Drays (also known as Tip Carts, Muck Cart, Scotch Cart, Tumbrel or Putt in different parts of England) were smaller than other drays as their loads were heavy and usually only pulled by one horse. Their basic design included two wheels, a tipping body and shafts. The Tip Dray has a unique mechanism that allows the top to tip backwards to tip the load out of the back of the dray. The tipper was activated by a handle at the front allowing the driver to operate it while still having control over the horse. A Tip Dray was an indispensable piece of equipment in the days before tractors and mechanical trucks. They were used by farmers and carters to transport hay, rocks, bricks, gravel and rubbish etc. and because they were useful for dumping loads, they were favoured for use in road and railway construction. A photo in the collection of the Lorne Historical Society shows a tipping dray being used during the construction of the Great Ocean Road. They were part of the daily street traffic in towns and cities around Australia from the early days of settlement. In Australia in the early 1900's, carters began to join unions to protect their jobs and pay. N.S.W. had a "Trolley, Draymen and Carters Union", Queensland had a "Tip Dray Men's Association" and in W. A. the "Top Dray Driver's Union" had a "cessation of work" in 1911 when they were fighting for an increase in their day's wages. In 1910 a meeting of Tip Carters was held in Geelong at the Trades Hall to discuss the formation of a union (The Geelong Tip Dray Carters) which was a success and a schedule of rates for all carting, whether by contract or day labor, was fixed. By 1912 they had "labelled" more than 50 drays and had representatives on the "Trades Hall and Eight Hours Committee". By the mid 1930's and early 1940's, tip drays were being superseded by mechanical trucks and utes. However tip drays continued to be used in some circumstances. They were a practical solution to the problem of petrol rationing during W. W. 2. It was noted in a letter to the editor in the "Sunshine Advocate" in 1938 that a positive argument for continued use of Tip Drays for rubbish collection related to the idea that a horse drawn vehicle involved with lots of stops and starts at different houses (very like a milkman's delivery route) often involved the horse "driving itself" while the driver picked up the rubbish - something a motor truck was unable to do! Another article written in August 1935 and published in the Age in a parliamentary report into the rubber industry noted "tip drays had almost disappeared and in their place, metal was carted in 5 ton motor trucks" but the report went on to say that as a part of the Government relief work (during the Great Depression) the Government had "to some extent reintroduced the tip drays so that a greater number of men would be employed". This particular tip dray was owned by Mr. Oswald (Jack) Bourke. He used it to deliver dry goods from Sunbury to the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne several times a week in the 1930's and then (between 1945 and 1962) Mr. Bourke used it on the garbage round in Springvale Victoria for the Springvale Council. The Council owned three drays and the "No. 3" painted on this dray is in recognition of its original number. After the death of Mr. Bourke in 1990, one of Mr. Bourke's sons (Andy) found the dray in a shed and restored it. The sign writing on the back and side panels were added during the restoration. This Tipping Dray is a significant example of a horse drawn vehicle that was used by workers from the early days of white settlement through to the 1940's and even into the early 1960's. It was used in a range of "working class" occupations - road construction, railway construction, carting goods, rubbish collection etc. and would have been found in cities, country towns and on farms.A wooden and metal tipping dray with a box body and four sides. It has two iron and wooden wheels (with 14 spokes), two wooden shafts and a metal tipping mechanism. The back panel folds down to allow loads to be dumped out. It is painted in green and cream with sign writing on one of the sides and on the front and back panels. It features decorative painted lines and designs in burgundy, cream and light blue on most of the wooden parts. The tipping mechanism is on the front of the dray's left side and consists of a metal pin secured with a metal ring, and a lever.Front of dray - "No. 3" Side of dray - "A. & M. BOURKE / Contractors / LONGWARRY" Back of dray - "G.T. ANDREWS / QUEEN VICTORIA MARKET - Stand C23 / Phone DANDENONG 225"flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, warrnambool, shipwreck coast, tipping dray, dray, tip dray, tip cart, vehicles, horse drawn vehicle, springvale council, jack bourke, muck cart, scotch cart, tumbrel, putt, box body, oswald bourke, sunbury, queen victoria market, melbourne, no. 3

Photograph of four men on dray pulled by two dark coloured horses. There a buildings which appear to be in Castlemaine Near Frederick Street. There are two engines on the back of the dray.thompsons foundry

The photo features Peter Ruston a pioneer of Greensborough.Peter Ruston was an ancestor of the Partington family.A black and white photograph of a bullock dray with machinery loaded.Detailed inscription with details of the "bullocky" on the rear in blue biro.peter rustin, rustin, ruston, bullock dray, transportation

Photograph showing working horse and tipping dray near Mt. Defianceg.o.r.; .horse-tipping-dray; mt. defiance;

photo of horse and dray with sign to welcome traffice to the Great Ocean Roadgor, horse and dray, welcoming

significant to the Pyrenees Shire and Lexton communityframed photographic montageInscribed front: Return of historic wagon and tip dray to '"Toll Bar" Park Lexton 2003

See ND2991 for history of kindergarten.Black & white photograph of a horse & dray carrying one women and eight children at the Forest Hill Residential Kindergarten.forest hill residential kindergarten, carts and wagons

Black and white photo of a bullock team and wagon outside Glenloth Store and Hotel c. 1900. There are 10 bullocks pulling the wagon. A man in a hat is standing beside the bullocks holding a whip. The dray is loaded with three layers of full bags and there is a bicycle on top of the bags. There are two buildings behind the bullock dray. The building on the right has a large sign reading GLENLOTH HOTEL. A typed note at the bottom the photo reads Bullock dray outside the Glenloth store c. 1900.glenloth store, glenloth hotel

Black and white photograph"Written on back of photograph" George Paul Burns with ox dray in Pitt Street. Circa 1920's (Similar photograph RA90 in NWD 02-08-08)

Students with Draft Horse and Dray in front of Stawell School of Mines Skene Street c1900stawell education

Digital copy of colour photographfred mitchell collection, 1956, dray, mernda

Dray and Horsesblack and white photograph do 3 horse dray transport, rail, road, dray, horses, travel

Photograph. Horse drawn dray, possibly a tipping dray. Inscriptions: Front, photo by T. Patullo. Back, P.53transport, horse, dray

photographed outside the Birregurra Railway Station 5 coaches and horses preparing for the trip to Lornebiregurra railway station, horses and dray, horse drawn coaches

syd tonzing, norman (jack) tonzing, fred tonzing, dad tonzing, charlie tonzing, harry tonzing

Part of a dray or wagon that go on the axle.Wagons and drays were used on the farms in the Kiewa Valley.Heavy steel rings that go on the axle hub of a wagon or a dray.dray equipment, wagon equipment

Buninyong Gold King FestivalColour Photo horse and dray in Warrenheip St. near Crown Hotel, people in dray in character dress, crowd of people on other side of road.buninyong, gold king, horse, dray, people

Drays were used to transport heavy materials such as farm products, building supplies, food. They were pulled by horses or bullocks. Drays were important for transportation in the Kiewa Valley.Made of timber and steel. The piece of wood contacts the axle hub to brake the dray. Part of a brake for a dray. It is missing the actuator that is needed for tightening the band to operate as a brake.drays, horses, bullocks

One of a series of photographs, taken by Edgar James Dower in the second decade of the twentieth century. Born and raised in Olinda, his family later moved to Surrey Hills. He worked as an adult as a clerk in the city office of the Metropolitan Gas Company, and in his role as a 'collector', he was able to photograph scenes including the construction of tramlines and associated buildings in Kew, Hawthorn, Camberwell and Surrey Hills. Later he established a real estate agency with his brother - the E.J. Dower Real Estate Agency, Dandenong Office.The image is an historically significant record of the development of transport infrastructure which was used to connect Victorians in the first two decades of the twentieth century. This development resulted from increases in population and the consequent extension of Melbourne's suburbs. The photographs, both individually and collectively, richly detail the labour of workers and the tools and machinery used to create and extend Melbourne's tram network in the years preceding and during World War 1.Digital copy of an original mounted photograph depicting construction of a new electric tramline in Cotham Road, Kew. The photo shows a pair of horse drawn drays with workers posed beside them. An annotation on the reverse of the photo notes that the drays were used to transport the steel tram tracks from the Hawthorn Railway Station siding. Annotated verso: "1913 / Preparing for Electric Tram Cotham Road Kew / Metal [tracks] transported by horse and dray from Hawthorn Railway siding"theme --- travelling by tram, theme -- connecting victorians by transport and communications, cotham road -- kew (vic.), trams -- kew (vic.)

The dray was pulled by a horse and used to transport road building materials such as gravel. The tray carried 0.7 of a cubic metre which would have weighed about 1 tonne (varying on the load being wet or dry).This tipping dray was owned by John Briggs who carried gravel on the Tawonga to German Creek Road from 1894 to 1895. Workers were paid 2/- (shillings) per day to cover sections that were called 'a paddock' resulting in workers finishing at 10 or 11 pm. The road opened on the 17th March 1896 at a cost of 1700 pounds. See KVHS 0960 for newspaper article re Tom Briggs and making (and photo) of the Tawonga Gap road.Old single axil wooden dray with wooden spoke wheels and a tipping wooden tray.tipping dray. john briggs. tawonga. german creek. road building. transport.

Bills bought the first dray in 1912 and the house was opened in 1914Sepia toned photograph of horse drawn coach and horse drawn dray filled with visitors at Toorloo House Lake Tyers Victoria Also a black and white copyaccommodation, guesthouses, transport

This image is of a bullock team belonging to Mr. Camm at Rupertswood. There are two men in the dray and one man in a white coat walkingA black and white photograph of a bullock team belonging to Mr. Camm. There are two men in the dray and one man in a white coat walking.animals, livestock, men, bullocks, camm, - (mr), rupertswood, drays, george evans collection