Machinery

J. Bartram & Sons of Bourke Street Melbourne built machinery for the dairy and food processing industry. Our boiler, built August 1911 and mounted on a four-wheeled trolley alongside a Tangye vertical pumping engine, could power a small milking plant.

A large collection of internal-combustion engines by R. Hornsby, Ronaldson Bros & Tippett, H. V. MacKay, International Harvester, Wolseley, Petter and Rosebery — many operated on special days.

Ordered by Robison Brothers in August 1906 and sold to J. C. Dahlsen of Bairnsdale in 1909. Reputed to be the only 2nhp Marshall portable under steam in Australia.

A larger portable steam engine ideally suited to the bush sawmills of the era — easy to shift, needing no heavy foundations, and powerful enough for a small mill.

Includes a Bellis & Morcom enclosed high-speed steam engine No. 9043 from Ruoak Timbers' Alexandra sawmill.

A Ruston 6-cylinder Class VEB Mk 2 diesel of 1950 direct-coupled to a Brush alternator — the emergency electricity supply for the Eildon hydro station from 1958 to 2006, now preserved as part of a hydro-electric tribute display.