Maps on lining papers. From the very dawn of settlement the bullock-team and the two-wheel dray have been important factors in all pastoral economy. They drew they heavy logs used as posts and sleepers in cottages, besides those that were needed at the saw-pits. The safely brought down the high-piled loads of wood, which only when safely loaded in the stores of the metropolitan merchants became marketable commodities. They drew fencing material, the firewood, the water needed for the homestead; and over all the hilly or marshy, stony or slippery bush tracks, dignified by the name of the roads, the bullock teams did their work slow, but honest and well.
But covering not only bullocks and bullock teams, all forms of transport in Australia are covered in this volume ... horse, carts, paddle steamers, buckboard and buggy, coaches, omnibuses, trams, cabs, and camels.
Containing information on transport for those in the bush, the mail, passengers and crew on the paddle steamers, carriages, as well as those in the cities. Containing black and white photographs, as well as sketches and an index, this book is a wonderful reference work on a past era of transport.