Getting about

Here are 30 vehicles from the Queensland Museum's collection, showing different ways of getting about and how transport has changed over time. Some of these were for family travel, some created history or broke records, some were for business and some were just for fun.

Motor Vehicles:

Auburn Taxi Autobuggy
Ford Fire Engine FN
Hartnett Indian Scout

Aircraft:

Avro Avian Avro Baby
Beech Duke Flying Flea

Boats:

Wasp Acrohc Australis
Bark Canoe  

Human power:

Fire bike Pram
Ambulance

See also:

Pump car (Rail)

Bark Canoe (Boats)

Horse-drawn vehicles:

Buggy Delivery van
Landau Omnibus
Sulky Timber Wagon
Cobb & Co. Coach Spring Wagon

Rail vehicles:

i A10 Steam locomotive Diesel-electric locomotive
Flash the cane train PB15 Steam locomotive
Hand pump car Railmotor

Museum Vehicles student activity sheet  (Rich text, 76k)

Changes in Transport - history of transport by Yarrabah State School on their Yarrabah Virtual Trails Project website

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