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Did you know...
Did you know the Cobb+Co Museum houses the National Carriage Collection of more than 50 horse drawn vehicles, dating back to mid 1860s? It is Australia’s finest collection of horse-drawn vehicles and features private vehicles like buggies and sulkies, wagons and drays used for heavy transport, and public transport vehicles such as Cobb & Co coaches and an omnibus.
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Left: Blacksmithing
One of the many heritage trade workshops held at Cobb & Co Museum.
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Originally a French invention, the Ominbus was licensed to carry 25 passengers – 12 inside and 12 on open roof seats and 1 beside the driver. The Omnibus housed in the Cobb & Co Museum is one of only two in Australia. It operated on the Rosalie-Brisbane route between 1897 and 1912 and then other Brisbane routes until it was replaced by a motorised bus in 1924. It could travel an average 12 miles (20 kilometres) per hour.
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Did you know...
Did you know that by the middle of 2010 the Cobb+Co Museum will be twice the size it is now? It will become a national and international centre for teaching traditional heritage trades, crafts and skills such as blacksmithing, leatherwork and saddlery, silversmithing, felting, leadlighting, woodworking and many more.
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Left: It Takes 3 Challenge Winner
A creative masterpiece made by a Cobb & Co Blacksmith, a Saddler and an Artist who must work together to produce a functional piece of art using 3 trades.
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Built in Charleville around 1900 it was used by Billie and Reg Hart’s all aboriginal droving team in the 1930s as a cut down wagon. The Harts moved cattle from the Northern Territory through to Western Queensland and down to NSW. The coach was restored in Charleville in 1950, and in 1966 travelled from Port Douglas to Melbourne on the longest coach journey in the world to raise money for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
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Did you know...
Did you know the Cobb+Co Museum has regular temporary exhibitions as well as changing displays about the natural and cultural heritage of Toowoomba and the Darling Downs? It is also the largest regional distribution centre for the very popular Queensland Museum Loans kits which can be borrowed by schools, kindergartens and community groups.
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Left: Little Cobbers
A special hands-on-program for 2-5 year olds and their parents and carers.
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Part of the amazing Megafauna which roamed the countryside on Queensland’s Darling Downs from 1.8 million to around 10,000 years ago. The Diprotodon could grow as large as a hippopotamus and weigh over 3000 kilograms. The Diprotodon was a marsupial mammal, and other marsupials such as giant kangaroos as well as mega sized birds and reptiles also lived on the Darling Downs.
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Left: Megalania eyes its breakfast of a diprotodon at Cobb & Co Museum’s exhibition, Megafauna – prehistoric giants from the Darling Downs. Image supplied by Cobb & Co Museum.
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