Heritage Living November 2013

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Inside this issue

5 Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller's hut

6 ruby anniversary for Ayers house

9 Nurragi Conservation Reserve

15 tractor POWER

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Perspectives

NTSA Bequest Program

Eric heapy Chief Executive Officer

You can give a gift that lasts many, many lifetimes…

Towards a brighter future The very generous support we have received from our Members, Patrons and Sponsors has built a solid foundation to ensure a bright and prosperous future for the Trust.

Over the past few months, we have been working very hard to increase revenues and were extremely pleased with the response to our Members appeal and the newly formed Patrons Group who now number forty seven.

Many of you who supported the Trust financially have a very strong family connection to our organisation, with some dating back to the Trust’s list of Foundation Members. It is this sense of family that seems to underpin the very foundation of our culture and in turn establishes an everlasting bond with our Members. It is an amazing strength that has risen to the surface during our time of need, and one which makes me so very proud to be a part of. I simply cannot thank you enough for the very generous support you have provided over the past few months.

It is also with great pleasure that I am able to announce that Santos has become the NTSA’s Principal Partner, and we are now working together to provide tangible benefits for both organisations. Once again, there was a very strong historic connection between the Trust and Santos, as three of our Foundation Members were also Founding Directors of Santos.

Another key area we are working on is the development of Civic Partnerships with local Councils. This program has already commenced with the Adelaide City Council passing a resolution to support the Trust financially. Accordingly, we are now working with them to bring an exciting new wiki website entitled “Adelaide’s Architecture and Heritage On-Line” and we expect this will be formally launched early in the New Year.

Meetings with other Councils are under way and we expect more of them to become involved as Civic Partners in the coming months.

Initiatives such as the ones I have outlined above truly demonstrate that Members, supporters and corporate entities value the National Trust of South Australia and that augurs well for a bright and prosperous future.

Bequests, or gifts by Will, have become increasingly important in supporting the work of the National Trust of SA. By making a provision for the National Trust of SA in your Will, you will be providing a lasting gift for future generations.

Every gift, no matter how large or small, is important to the National Trust of SA. Thomsons Lawyers offer the National Trust of SA Members, the opportunity to have a simple Will prepared free of cost*, when you decide to leave a gift to the National Trust of SA. To find out more about how to remember National Trust of SA in your Will, or to make an appointment with a Solicitor, contact the National Trust State Office: By telephone on 8202 9200 or email admin@nationaltrrustsa.org.au *(Please note, if your Will has detailed provisions that require complex planning, the solicitor may charge you for the costs of preparing your Will. The solicitor would, however, make you aware of those costs prior to commencing any chargeable work.)

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Then and Now

Marble Hill Part 2 Brian McMillan

| Vice President NTSA

Hallam, Lord Tennyson GCMG PC (1852-1928), Governor of South Australia 1899-1902, and Governor-General of Australia 1902-04, his wife Audrey (1854-1916), and their sons Lionel, Lord Tennyson (1889-1951), Alfred (1891-1918) and Harold (1896-1916), comprised one family whose experiences in Australia, including at Marble Hill, are recorded in correspondence1.

On 23 April 1899 Lady Tennyson wrote from Government House, Adelaide to her mother, Zacyntha Boyle: “... Yesterday Mr Owen Smith... drove us... up to Marble Hill at 10.30. The dust & heat were terrible at first till we got out of the town & then had a lovely drive all up hills with sheep, green hills with gum trees, & such wild roses & lovely pink, red and white heaths in the woods, till we arrived at the white-painted gate at the entrance to a wide drive through woods with a very wide tall clipped laurel hedge on one side. The house is of stone... with a tower & sash windows & enormously wide verandahs two sides of the house on the ground and first floor, onto which all the rooms open. It is a very nice comfortable house with wide staircase down into a nice hall & a sort of gallery all round the first floor into which all the rooms open. We shall get on very comfortably in large airy lofty rooms & have one large spare room but that is all. Lovely views of wooded hills all round... We took up luncheon and had a lovely drive home in the moonlight, the horses tearing down the hills at a great pace...”2 above

On 17 December 1899 Lady Tennyson wrote from Marble Hill to her mother: “Here we are, settling up here...

It’s a delightful large airy house & the views are glorious all round & the great wide verandahs on which all our rooms open upstairs and down, running round three side of the house, are a great joy. They are 9ft 3 inches wide and about 165 feet in length – downstairs with marble tile floors, upstairs with wooden... the only drawback being the flies, but Mdlle3 & I have already begun to put up green gauze curtains to the windows & by this means I hope we shall keep a good many out...”4.

On 25 January 1903 Lady Tennyson wrote from Marble Hill to her mother: “Sunday How I wish I could send you some of our glorious sunshine...

Monday I did not get far yesterday for as soon as I had begun writing to you... Hallam came past my window and we then spent a quiet peaceful hour together in the verandah with our feet in the sun & our heads in the shade & I with my blue spectacles on for the glare was dreadful & we sat there gazing

at our wonderful & beautiful view...

I and the boys are able to do everything together up here, & all their lives I am afraid I shall look back to the times spent at Marble Hill as some of the happiest of my life...”5.

On 1 February 1903 Lady Tennyson wrote from Marble Hill to her mother: “... We have had bushfires all round us the last two or three days, the first of this year, & I hope they won’t go on, for one gets so sick of the smell of burnt wood which one can’t get away from, for everything inside & out gets impregnated with it...”6 Our story will continue, from Black Sunday, 2 January 1955.

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Audrey Tennyson’s Vice-Regal Days: the Australian Letters of Audrey Lady Tennyson 1899-1903 edited by Alexandra Hasluck (National Library of Australia 1978) Op Cit page 31-32 Mademoiselle Jose Dussau, the children’s French governess Op Cit page 79 Op Cit page 264 Op Cit page 265

Lady Tennyson with Aubrey, Lionel and Harold1903 Photo: SLSA B45407

top right

Lord and Lady Tennyson outside Government Photo: SLSA B71638

Bottom right The

Governor’s residence at Marble Hill. A side view of Marble Hill at Norton Summit, showing the balconies on the ground and first floors.

The house was burnt out in 1955 ca.1880. Photo: SLSA B58005_39

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Then and Now

Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller in rural South Australia Brian McMillan

| Vice President NTSA

Baron Sir Ferdinand Von Mueller KCMG FRS is best known in Australia for his work as Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne (1857-1873) and elsewhere for his introduction to the world of the Australian Blue Gum (Eucalyptus globulus).

His hut in Bugle Ranges, built in 1849, still stands.

Born in Rostock, Germany in 1825, Mueller qualified as a chemist and, in 1846, was awarded a PhD by the University of Keil for his thesis on the plants of the southern regions of Schleswig. He arrived in South Australia on 15 December 1847 on the Hermann von Beckerath with his sisters.

Sir Samuel Davenport of Beaumont House happened to be at the quayside: he offered the Muellers accommodation. Their meeting then led to a long-term friendship, ending in 1896 on Von Mueller’s death.

The main room (2.8m square) was used as the kitchen and sitting room and was dominated by a large fire place (1.2m wide by 45cm deep). The fireplace and chimney projected through the roof against the gable walls. Sawn red gum planks were laid and butted together, becoming the original floor.

The ceiling was constructed using hand-sawn planks. The original bark-thatched roof was replaced over time with corrugated galvanized iron, and the building still remains without a verandah.

The tiny second room (2.8m by 2.0m) was the only bedroom.

In December 1848 Mueller decided (along with a good friend and aided

by Davenport) to purchase a block of land of about 20 acres in Bugle Ranges, east of Macclesfield, leaving the employment as a chemist in Adelaide which he had obtained on arrival, to spend more time on botanical research.

Von Mueller’s hut was built from local sheoak and red gum. The large trunks were split into slabs and used vertically like a fence for the walls.

The gaps between the slabs were filled with a mixture of clay and water, a technique called ‘pugging’.

The finish on the walls was a lime wash.

NOTE This article was inspired by perusal of Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller: An overview of his life in Adelaide, botanical work and his cottage in the Bugle Ranges in South Australia from 1847-52 by John Gitsham, who has given permission for its use. (to access the Essay, Google “Von Mueller Essay Flinders University”). top Interior

2 Von Muellers Hut May 2013, Photo: John Gitsham

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Muellers Hut May 2013, Photo: John Gitsham

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Ruby

Anniversary

for the jewel in the crown Darren Peacock

| NTSA Councillor

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Ayers House Museum by the National Trust in 1973. In those forty years the house has seen many thousands of visitors and played host to numerous events, more than 75 exhibitions and a growing number of guided tours. For most visitors, the people that have met them and shown them through the house and its history are the magnificent National Trust volunteers who have dedicated countless hours to operating and sharing the museum with its guests.

In 1972, Premier Don Dunstan invited the National Trust to create and manage a public museum within Ayers House. The heroic efforts of the Trust’s Women’s Committee saw the three main rooms of the house furnished and ready for visitors by June 30, 1973. Since that time, the museum has expanded to display eleven rooms across all three floors of the house.

More than 125 people are known to have worked as volunteers over the years, most notably Mrs Anne Wallman OAM who served Ayers House as collection manager for 35 years and Sister Helen James OAM who was the Volunteer Co-ordinator and trainer for 24 years.

In order to honour the 40th anniversary of the museum and the enormous contribution of its volunteers over that time, plans for a commemorative publication are now underway.

The publication will explore the many uses of Ayers House over time and its special place in South Australia’s history.

For some of you, your memories may relate to the years in which the house was used as a Nurses' home for the Royal Adelaide Hospital until the renovations of the 1970’s. Some may even know stories from its days as Austral Gardens 100 years ago, when the house hosted concerts and plays to raise funds to support the Allied war effort in Europe and entertain servicemen returned from the battlefront.

And for all those volunteers who have helped make the museum a memorable experience for forty years, please get back in touch. We’d love to hear from you again!

Please email us at ayershouse@ nationaltrustsa.org.au, 'attention: Janine' call on 08 8223 1234 or mail 288 North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000.

In order to complete this work, we are hoping you can help tell the story of Ayers House. In particular, we would like you to share your Ayers House stories, photos and memorabilia.

Left to Right Ayers

House volunteers place a time capsule to be opened in the future. Ayers House Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide.

Ayers House After Dark Team. Ayers House Volunteers - North Terrace Open Day, 2005. Ayers House Volunteer Curator, Dorothy Woodley. Photos: Ayers House, Janine Hook.

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Patrons

President’s Thank you dinner On Tuesday 27 August the President of the National Trust of South Australia, Emeritus Professor Norman Etherington AM, welcomed some of the Trust’s Patrons to a dinner at Ayers House Museum.

Guests arrived to the music of the Vivente Quartet and a three course meal was then served in the Ballroom of Ayers House. In a short speech Professor Norman Etherington outlined some of the programs the Trust has undertaken to aid its financial recovery and then thanked all patrons for helping the Trust through difficult times.

The Patrons program was launched in February 2013.

To date 47 people have pledged their support for the program.

Patron List as at 1.9.2013 Sir George Kingston Patron $5,000 and above

Edmund Wright Patron $3,000 - $4,999

Mrs. Joan Beer Cavill Power Products Pty Ltd Prof Norman Etherington AM and Prof Peggy Brock Mrs. Anne Jolly Mr Hugh MacLachlan OAM & Mrs. Fiona MacLachlan The Hon. Rod Matheson AM QC & Mrs. Leonie Matheson Mr H. Edwin Michell Dr Patricia A Michell Mrs. Susan Morgan Mr Robert (Bob) Piper AO & Mrs. Margaret Piper Pitcher Partners Lady Porter Mrs. Eve Shannon-Cullity Mr Ian Wall OAM Mrs. Pamela Wall OAM Mrs. Marion W Wells

Mr Alastair & Mrs. Janet Angas Mrs. Margaret Bennett Mrs. Rosemary de Meyrick Mrs. Skye McGregor Mr Antony & Mrs. Mary Lou Simpson

Colonel William Light Patron $1,500 - $2,999 Mr Michael Abbott AO QC Mr Michael Boylan & Mrs. Deborah Morgan Mr Clive Brooks Mr Robin & Mrs. Helen Greenslade Mr Richard Harvey AM & Mrs. Cecily Harvey The Hon. Dr Diana Laidlaw AM Mrs. Margaret Lee Mr Ian H Lloyd Mr John P Maddern Mr Peter Morgan The Hon. Dr. Kemeri Murray AO Mr John Phillips Mrs. M P Schroder Mrs. Sue Tweddell Mr Cedric Wells OAM Mr R J Whitington QC Mrs. Pamela Yule

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Top to bottom

The Chief Executive Officer Eric Heapy and wife Joy. Lady Porter, Prof Norman Etherington AM, Dr Patricia Michell.

Mrs Leonie Matheson, Mrs Sue Crafter, Mrs Pamela Yule.

Mr Robin Greenslade, Mr Ian Wall OAM, Prof Peggy Brock.

Mrs Anne Jolly, Mrs Margaret Lee, Mr Michael Abbott AO QC.

Events

No batteries needed!

Mark Taylor

| Tea Tree Gully Branch Secretary

A special presentation of historic games and toys delighted children young and old alike at the Old Highercombe Hotel Museum in Tea Tree Gully during July.

Excited children scampered throughout the museum proving that fun can still be found without a battery or a digital screen in sight. Along with their parents or grandparents, the children discovered and played with the toys and games of yesteryear. At regular points throughout the museum, a green glove was used to indicate that a ‘hands-on’ activity was ready to enjoy.

The event, titled ‘No Batteries Needed’ featured children’s activities prior to batteries and, in most cases, prior to plastic. Research by volunteer Mary Jo Zwar included the creation of a detailed timeline, which was displayed along the length of the downstairs hallway, outlining the history of various games and toys.

Visitors experienced brand name toys such as Meccano (initially developed in 1901) and Tinkertoy (1914).

They also tried numerous simpler nonpatented activities. Many a parent or grandparent relived their own childhood showing today’s children how to create string figures with their fingers or play knucklebones.

The puppet theatre invited everyone to stretch their imaginations to another world.

Several significant historical toys were on display, including Pim’s Musical Blocks, produced in the 1940s by L G Pimblett in Sydney.

Eight cardboard blocks each contain a bell playing a different note. The box includes a permit number from the Department of War Organisation of Industry which was responsible for coordinating resources ‘to secure the maximum war effort consistent with the provision of minimum essential civilian needs’.

At the end of the display, visitors arrived in the main meeting room with the opportunity to play popular table games from across the ages,

including a quick game of dominoes, which originated in China in the 1200s or earlier, to an extended game of Monopoly, created in 1934.

This eight day event attracted more than 1200 visitors to the Old Highercombe Hotel Museum which is managed by volunteers of the Tea Tree Gully Branch. From all indications, a fun and memorable time was had by all.

Photos: Mark

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Taylor

Conservation

Nurragi Conservation Reserve: Conserving our Natural and Cultural Heritage Simon Lewis

| Natural Heritage Committee

The Nurragi Conservation Reserve is a former railway corridor that now has a vital function in the conservation of native plants and animals. It covers 65ha and comprises the former Sandergrove to Milang railway reserve. It’s a fascinating nature corridor that also reflects the early railway history of the State.

to control pests and to enhance the reserve. Bridal creeper control has been a particular success.

Revegetation of cleared areas along the Reserve has also been a priority through direct-seeding and tubestock planting, the latter often involving local schools.

by the National Trust of South Australia and the Friends of Nurragi.

The Friends of Nurragi is essentially a group of local volunteers including members from the Strathalbyn Naturalists and Local Government.

A narrow corridor such as this is quite vulnerable to weed invasion from adjoining land. The Friends of Nurragi, in collaboration with the local Alexandrina Council, have applied an innovative approach to this problem. Nearby undeveloped road reserves have been closed and the equivalent amount of land has been added to the Nurragi Reserve – as strips of land alongside the original reserve that are now being revegetated with native species.

The Sandergrove – Milang railway operated between 1884 and 1970 as an off-shoot of the Adelaide – Victor Harbor line. With closure of the line, disposal of the land to adjoining landholders loomed as the next step.

However, local groups lobbied for its retention as a reserve because of its important native vegetation.

With the support of the State Government, the area was dedicated as a Nature Reserve in June 1991. For several years, the reserve terminated on the outskirts of Milang but in 2001 a further section was dedicated, completing the link through to Milang and Lake Alexandrina.

The reserve contains extremely important vegetation in a region that has been cleared of over 98% of its original cover. More than 300 native plant species are present, with over 50 of those being of particular conservation significance (eg rare or endangered). The Reserve is an important bird corridor, linking the lakeside environment to the foothills.

Nurragi Conservation Reserve is unusual in that it is jointly managed

The Friends of Nurragi have volunteered thousands of hours

above left Rosemary above right Typical

Dampiera Photo: Jeff Whittaker.

scene, Nurragi Reserve Photo: Simon Lewis.

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With the support of State NRM funding, a more formal walking trail is now being established along the reserve to enhance the experience for visitors to this very interesting area.

Restoration

Not the last ever voyage of the PS Marion Information drawn from Full Steam Ahead, the newsletter of the Friends of the PS Marion, Mannum Dock Museum and the PS Marion & Visitor Information Centre.

On June 6th 1963 the PS Marion steamed away from Berri bound for Mannum on what was billed as the Last Voyage of the Marion.

The vessel had been bought by the National Trust of South Australia and was to be displayed as a static exhibit in the Randell Dry Dock at Mannum. In 1989 a public meeting in Mannum decided that the best way to preserve the Marion which, by then, was in a poor state of repair was to restore her to her former glory. This was achieved with the massive input of both paid and volunteer labour and she now plies the river out of Mannum once again. above PS

In 2012 a proposal to re-enact the 1963 voyage as a 50th anniversary event was considered and so the “Not the Last Ever Voyage of the PS Marion” celebration was created.

At exactly 12.40pm on the 6th of June 2013 the Marion steamed away from the Berri town wharf bound for Mannum. The voyage was uneventful when steaming along above the Locks, but once below each lock and out of the influence of the next one, shallow water caused some problems, however in typical riverboat fashion these were overcome and on June 15th she steamed into Mannum in a cloud of black smoke to the welcome of a large crowd.

Today the Marion operates out of Mannum as a reminder of the great riverboat and shipping enterprise that once plied the waters of the Murray Darling river system.

Marion. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Insert PS Marion. Photo: Craig Whyte

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In honour of the

ANZAC Centenary commemorations in 2014,

next year we will be featuring stories about our servicemen and servicewomen. If you have wonderful stories, letters or photographs from family members during the Wars, or any interesting collections of objects from servicemen and servicewomen that you wish to share please contact us via email to admin@nationaltrustsa.org.au or telephone (08) 8202 9200.

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Plus, $13 of your Book purchase goes towards our fund-raising for National Trust of South Australia,

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To order a book/s please contact National Trust of South Australia, Telephone: 82029200, Email: admin@nationaltrustsa.org.au or order your book online www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/1623x82 *Please remember to reference National Trust of South Australia when registering your 2013 | 2014 Entertainment™ Membership.

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with every ticket you purchase from the National Trust of SA you will support us in our heritage and conservation endeavours.

To purchase your tickets/ books please contact Joseanne Visentin, NTSA State Office on (08) 8202 9200 or email admin@nationaltrustsa.org.au

Out ‘n’ About november Burnside Branch �� Beaumont House Open Day Sunday 3rd November Time: 2.00pm – 4.30pm Place: 631 Glynburn Rd, Beaumont Cost: $8.00 Enquiries: Chris Perriam email: perriamci@bigpond.com

Mount Barker Branch �� Talk: Speaker Jan Polkinghorne Topic: “Mylor” Jan has published a history of Mylor so is well able to share some experiences of this Town.

Tuesday 12th November Time: 1:30pm Place: Uniting Church Hall Enquiries: Triss Wales (08) 8389 9281

Port Elliot Branch �� Annual Musical Evening Thursday 14th November Time: 8.00pm Place: RSL Hall, The Strand Port Elliot Enquiries: Gretchen Lindner (08) 8664 2457

Beaumont House. Photo Merilyn Kuchel

Victor Harbor Branch �� Talk: Speaker Pat Page Topic: Faberge Eggs Thursday 21st November Time: 2.00 pm Place: Old School Building, Torrens St, Victor Harbor Enquiries: Val Yelds (08) 8552 4440

NTSA 58th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING and STATE CONFERENCE Saturday 23rd November Time: 10.00am – 12.00 noon AGM, State Conference 1.00pm -4.00pm Place: North Adelaide Community Centre, 176 Tynte St, North Adelaide Enquiries: Please notify State Office of your attendance. Morning tea and a light lunch can be ordered at a cost of $20.00 per head.

Please contact Helen Cartmel, NTSA, 631 Glynburn Road, Beaumont SA 5066, phone 8202 9213, email executiveadmin@nationaltrustsa. org.au or download and complete a form from our website http://www.nationaltrust.org.au/sa

by Friday 8 November 2013.

Ayers House Museum

Above Adelaide Treasury Tours - Tunnels - Photo

by Adina Apartment Hotel Adelaide Treasury

�� Adelaide Treasury Tours Explore one of Adelaide’s oldest and most significant historical sites on a tour of the Old Adelaide Treasury, and much more!

Sunday 17th November Time: 11.00am Place: Adina Apartment Hotel Adelaide Treasury, Corner Flinders and King William Streets Enquiries: (08) 8223 1234 or ayershouse@nationaltrustsa.org.au

�� Lady Ayers 200th Birthday High Tea Lady Anne Ayers, wife of Sir Henry Ayers, invites you to celebrate her 200th birthday with a decadent traditional Victorian high tea in the opulent State Dining Room.

Sunday 24th November Time: 2.00pm – 4.00pm Place: Ayers House Museum, North Terrace Cost: $40 per person Enquiries: (08) 8223 1234 or ayershouse@nationaltrustsa.org.au

december Burnside Branch �� Beaumont House Open Day Sunday 1st December Time: 2.00pm – 4.30pm Place: 631 Glynburn Rd, Beaumont Cost: $8.00 Enquiries: Chris Perriam email: perriamci@bigpond.com

Mount Barker Branch �� Talk: Speaker Max Shackleford Topic: "James Shackleford the second school teacher at Mount Barker Springs”. Max Shackleford will speak about his great grandfather. James was the first teacher at the school on the Frame property.

Tuesday 3rd December Time: 1:30pm Place: Uniting Church Hall Enquiries: Triss Wales (08) 8389 9281

Port Elliot Branch �� Christmas Dinner Thursday 5th December Time: 6.30 pm Place: RSL Hall, The Strand Port Elliot Enquiries: Gretchen Lindner (08) 8664 2457

Burnside Branch �� Christmas Dinner Friday 6th December Time: 7.00 pm Place: 631 Glynburn Rd, Beaumont Enquiries: Chris Perriam email: perriamci@bigpond.com

Victor Harbor Branch �� Christmas Lunch tba Thursday 12th December Enquiries: Val Yelds (08) 8552 4440

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Then and Now

Workhorses of rural life Sue Scheiffers

| NTSA Vice President

For many years, tractors were the workhorses of rural life. National Trust museums are now home for many of these hard working machines, each with their own special story and associations. Here we feature a few of the most remarkable from our diverse collections.

The cover of this issue features a Fordson from NTSA’s Koppio Branch, a general purpose tractor manufactured by Henry Ford & Son, known as Ford Motor Company after 1920. The original Fordson Model F, completed in 1916, was the first small, lightweight, mass-produced, affordable tractor in the world, making it possible for the average farmer to own a tractor for the first time.

The Farmall, manufactured by International Harvester, were allpurpose tractors that were affordable for small to medium-sized family farms. At first they were painted a deep blue-grey, with red wheels.

In mid-1936, the

entire tractor was changed to a new colour - Farmall Red. Around this time many tractor manufacturers began using bright, distinctive colours for branding (e.g AllisChalmers orange). A farmer could look out across the fields and see his neighbor's tractor from a great distance and know its make. This provided a sort of advertising in the intensely competitive tractor market.

There are many more tractors and many more stories about them at our museums across the state.

The Lanz Bulldog was first manufactured by Heinrich Lanz in Germany in 1921. It became one of the most popular German tractors. The name "Bulldog" is widely used in Germany as a synonym for tractors even today.

In Australia, the KL Bulldog was produced by Kelly & Lewis of Springvale, Victoria, between 1948 and 1952. Just over 860 were built, based on the 35 HP Model N Bulldog.

The Deutz 28hp 2-cylinder diesel tractor, imported from Germany in 1939 and later donated to the Koppio Smithy Museum by the Jericho family, tells a powerful story. Stan Domagalski, who migrated to SA in 1949, visited the museum in 2009.

Coming face to face with the Deutz brought back a traumatic wartime experience from Poland in the winter of 1945. Stan, aged 18, was ordered to take a Deutz to evacuate the family he worked for to Germany ahead of the advancing Russians.

Eventually, they arrived at Hamburg after a journey fraught with difficulty, pain and fear, during which several family members died. The Deutz at Koppio, identical to the one in Poland, triggered memories of that gruelling experience. Stan later dedicated many hours to working on the Koppio machine.

Above and insert  Fordson

Tractor. Photo: Sue Scheiffers

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1. Top Left Lanz

Bulldog Tractor. Photo: Sue Scheiffers

2. Top Right Fordson Tractor.

Photo: Sue Scheiffers 3. above Stan

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Photo: David Casserley

4. Left Lanz

Bulldog Tractor.

Photo: Sue Scheiffers

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Building history matters to us

In 1955, three of the founders of Santos helped to establish the National Trust in South Australia. Today, as the new Principal Partner of the Trust, Santos looks forward to once again contributing to preserving our State’s history.

This latest pledge continues a Santos tradition of backing South Australian community organisations and events; a commitment which last year alone reached $6 million.

Like Sir Douglas Mawson, John Langdon Bonython and George Symes 58 years ago, we at Santos continue to believe that protecting our heritage and supporting South Australia’s diverse communities is well worth the effort.

Because we’re not just an energy company, we’re a company with energy.