Whitemans Park tractor museum

Every now and again I like to take the kiddies into the old tractor museum at Whitemans Park, it's full of all different types of old farm machinery. Like this ripper farm harvester which is still in pretty good condition for her age...

Dozens of relics from WA’s agricultural past are on display at the Tractor Museum of WA, the collection includes nearly forty tractors, as well as stationary engines, vintage trucks, a display of country life artifacts and old photographs from days gone past.

A ripper old MASSEY FERGUSON TRACTOR that was donated to the museum, actually Western Australia even had its own tractor manufacturer, Chamberlain Industries (subsequently taken over by John Deere before later closing down).

From the tractor museum we walked to the other side of the park, to the Revolutions Transport Museum which is full of all different types of stuff from history. like this old COBB & Co stagecoach and doesn't she look a bloody ripper, the museum let you take a journey back in time as you explore how transport has changed over the years. Whiteman Park’s own Revolutions Transport Museum, along with the Tractor and Motor Museums, will provide you with a wealth of knowledge about the features of transport and the important role it plays in our lives... Then and now.

And my favorite bit of aussie history is surely the immaculate 1962 EJ Holden, with vintage radio tracks blaring and that old vinyl-seat aroma. This curbside Classic featured a wrap around rear window, with just a hint of the cantilevered rear roofline seen on some of its American cousins.

As it turned out, it was the last model to have the ‘grey’ engine that had powered Holden's since 1948. The grey engine was originally of 132 ci, but enlarged to 138 ci in 1960. Here's Oscar displaying the skinny steering wheel, the EJ Holden dominated the market in its day, as did earlier Holdens, and over 150,000 were produced in about 12 months – indeed, the 1,000,000th Holden was an EJ.