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Puffing Billy Railway
Tool - Drag Saw, New Record Drag Saw, circa 1920s
... James Hermon & Sons... railway station and Museum are built on was once apart of James... on was once apart of James Hermon's & his son William Hermon's ...Circa 1920s petrol driven cross saw. It was mainly used cross cutting felled logs The Land on which the Menzies Creek railway station and Museum are built on was once apart of James Hermon's & his son William Hermon's property on which this Drag Saw was used. reference : Jinkers and Whims: A Pictorial History of Timber-Getting By Jack BradshawHistoric - Industrial Timber working petrol driven cross saw - Drag SawLarge, mechanical saw mounted on a steel shaft connected to tin fuel and water containers. The machine has two large spoked wheels, a rotating Crankshaft and an extended arm/rod attached to a crank and flywheel.New Record puffing billy, drag saw, timber cutting, early mechanical equipment, james hermon & sons, menzies creek, 1920s -
Puffing Billy Railway
Machine - Conveyor / Loader, Munro Engineers Pty Ltd, 1955
... are built on was once apart of James Hermon's & his son William... railway station and Museum are built on was once apart of James ...Munro Engineers Pty Ltd, Handilift Stacker & Loader' The Land on which the Menzies Creek railway station and Museum are built on was once apart of James Hermon's & his son William Hermon's property on which this Munro Handilift Stacker & Loader was used. Historic -Industrial Tool - Handilift Stacker & Loader - used on Jame's Hermon's property on which the Menzies Creek Railway is built on Munro Engineers Pty Ltd, Handilift Stacker & Loader made of steel and wood and wrought ironMunro Engineers Pty ( symbol map of Australia ) Ltd, Ballarat Vic. On side - No. 3147 On wheel - no, 2052puffing billy, munro engineers, handilift stacker & loader, hermon, menzies creek -
Puffing Billy Railway
Horse drawn scoop from Hermon’s nursery
... and Museum are built on was once apart of James Hermon's & his son... of James Hermon's & his son William Hermon's property on which ...Metal Horse drawn scoop from Hermon’s nursery at Menzies Creek. The Land on which the Menzies Creek railway station and Museum are built on was once apart of James Hermon's & his son William Hermon's property on which Horse drawn scoops of this type would have been used. Historic - industrial Farm equipment used on the farm of James Hermon & his son William Hermon on which the museum is built Horse drawn scoop from Hermon’s nursery made of Metal West Footscray Engineering Works Pty Ltdpuffing billy, menzies creek, scoop, hermon -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - Hermon home, Menzies Creek
... . Joy and Lyn are the great grandchildren of James Hermon who... are the great grandchildren of James Hermon who built the house in 1874 ...Black and white photograph of three young children, Joy and Lyn Hermon and a friend, standing beside a timber and corrugated iron house with two brick chimneys, built in Menzies Creek. Joy and Lyn are the great grandchildren of James Hermon who built the house in 1874-1878. In 1885 the house became the Aura/Menzies Creek post office. Copy given to Sherbrooke Centenary Committee in 1989 by Hermon family. -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - Photo - Gravestone of John Thomas Hermon, brother of William Hermon snr
... Hermon/Beloved son of/James and Fanny Hermon/Accidentally killed.../Beloved son of/James and Fanny Hermon/Accidentally killed ...B&W photo of a gravestone in a cemetery. The headstone reads, “Erected/by his fellow workmen/in memory of/John Thomas Hermon/Beloved son of/James and Fanny Hermon/Accidentally killed at Coolac Crossing/August 3rd 1885/in the execution of his duty as guard/on [illegible] train from/Cootamundra to Gundagai/Born Sunbury Victoria/Aged 21 years/Respected and esteemed by all who knew him." Also death notice from Melbourne Age.