Tractor Museum

Vintage tractors, stationary engines, a 1927 AJS motorcycle, a charcoal-burner gas converter and three Caterpillar crawler tractors.

The Tractor Museum is a purpose-built shed constructed in 2014 to store and display the Village’s historic tractors and agricultural machinery. A front awning was added in 2026 with the support of the Gambling Community Benefit Fund.

The collection includes vintage tractors of many makes and models, showing how farming moved from horse-drawn equipment to engine power, and a collection of vintage stationary engines that once ran on kerosene, petrol or diesel to drive water pumps, corn huskers, sawmills and other farm machinery. Also on display are a 1927 AJS motorcycle and a vehicle fitted with a gas converter and charcoal burner — an alternative fuel system developed during the fuel shortages of the Second World War that allowed vehicles to run on wood gas.

In 2026 the Village also became home to three Caterpillar crawler tractors, formerly used in local forestry operations, acquired from the Queensland Museum’s Bert Thiess collection.