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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Lilian Pitts, Loading the Dray, 1910
One of a series of copied photographs depicting life on an orchard in 1910. Originals owned by Mrs Nancy Tyson, Merrigum, a local historian.Black and white photograph of 3 men loading cases of fruit onto horse driven dray.on back: Loading the dray.lilian pitt, orchard work -
Buninyong & District Historical Society
Photograph - Original Photograph, Mr. W. Grigg with horses and dray, Bungaree 1990, 1990
farm equipmentColour photograph, Mr. W. Grigg with horses and dray, Bungaree 1990.buninyong, w. grigg, horses, dray, bungaree -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph, Leslie Iredale on brick dray, 1925c
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 -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Vehicle - Dray
A Dray is a two-wheeled cart usually drawn by one or two draught animals such as horses or donkeys, They can transport the driver and a few passengers or a small amount of cargo. The term Dray is predominantly used only in Australia and New Zealand and are known as carts in other countries. Brown wood, dark red wheels, unpainted shafts. Some decorative wood panelling.farm machinery, horse drawn vehicle, dray, churchill island, vehicle -
Lorne Historical Society
Photograph, G.O.R: Horse and dray:
Horse and dray sign welcoming traffic.horse and dray: sign welcoming traffic: g.o.r -
Maldon Vintage Machinery Museum Inc
Photograph, Thompsons Foundry, Skew Bridge Beam on Dray
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 -
Lorne Historical Society
Photograph, Dipping Dray at Mt. Defiance Great Ocean Road
Photograph showing tipping dray at Mt. Defianceg.o.r; tipping-dray: mt. defiance; -
Maldon Vintage Machinery Museum Inc
Photograph, Thompsons Foundry, Engine on Dray
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 -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph, Peter Ruston and bullock dray, 1860c
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 -
Lorne Historical Society
Photograph, Tripping Dray at Mt Defiance Great Ocean Road
Photograph showing working horse and tipping dray near Mt. Defianceg.o.r.; .horse-tipping-dray; mt. defiance; -
Lorne Historical Society
Photograph, Horse and Dray with welcome sign on rock
photo of horse and dray with sign to welcome traffice to the Great Ocean Roadgor, horse and dray, welcoming -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Vehicle - Tip Dray, Prior to 1930s
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 -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Forest Hill Residential Kindergarten - horse & dray, c1938
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 -
Charlton Golden Grains Museum Inc
Photograph, Bullock dray, Glenloth c. 1900
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 -
Pyrenees Shire Council
Photo montage, Photographs of historic wagon and tip dray, c2003
significant to the Pyrenees Shire and Lexton communityframed photographic montageInscribed front: Return of historic wagon and tip dray to '"Toll Bar" Park Lexton 2003 -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Draft Horse and Dray with students from the Stawell School Mines in Skene Street c1900
Students with Draft Horse and Dray in front of Stawell School of Mines Skene Street c1900stawell education -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Fred Mitchell, Discarded dray, Mernda, 1956
Digital copy of colour photographfred mitchell collection, 1956, dray, mernda -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, George Paul Burns with ox dray Circa 1920's
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) -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph
Dray and Horsesblack and white photograph do 3 horse dray transport, rail, road, dray, horses, travel -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Lilian Pitts, Loading the fruit, 1910
One of a series of copied photographs depicting life on an orchard in 1910. Originals owned by Mrs Nancy Tyson, Merrigum, a local historian.Black and white photograph of man loading cases of fruit onto dray.on back: heaving full cases of fruit onto dray.lilian pitt, orchard work -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Newspaper - Newspaper Cutting, Off to the Orchard, C. 21.06.1939
3 out of the 8 girls were identified as: Eleanor Parsons (1939), June de Chaneet (1939) and Jay Leach (M.J. Leitch? 1939) in 1938 or 1939. Caption, "Off to the Orchard - Girls of Burnley Horticultural School setting off for work in a farm dray yesterday." Photograph of carthorse and dray with 8 girls seated on it. Front left seated: Eleanor Parsons, front right seated June de Chaneetfemale students, eleanor parsons, jay leach, m.j. leach, students working outside, horse, dray, june de chaneet -
Lorne Historical Society
Photograph - Photograph Horses and dray outside Birregurra railway Station, Horses and dray outside Birregurra Railway Station preparing for trip to Lorne
photographed outside the Birregurra Railway Station 5 coaches and horses preparing for the trip to Lornebiregurra railway station, horses and dray, horse drawn coaches -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph
Part of collection of Photographs donated to the Museum by the family of the late Mr. Jack Jenner (1977)Black & White Photograph of an Original Farm DrayLabelled: Original Farm Dray in which McIlwraith Family came to Phillip Island in January 1869.local history, photography, photographs, slides, film rural industry, farm machinery, view cowes, black & white photograph, jack jenner, farm dray, mcillwraith family, phillip island -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - COOK COLLECTION: HORSE DRAWN CART
Photograph. Horse drawn dray, possibly a tipping dray. Inscriptions: Front, photo by T. Patullo. Back, P.53transport, horse, dray -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Metal Rings x2, Horse Equipment
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 -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Dray Brake Band, Horse Equipment
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 -
Buninyong & District Historical Society
Photograph - Original Colour Photograph, Buninyong Festival, 1991, Feb. 1991
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 -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Tipping Dray
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. -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Electric tram line construction in Cotham Road, Kew, E.J. Dower, 1913
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.) -
Hume City Civic Collection
Photograph, c1920s
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