Centaur Tractor Engine

John Harbeck fondly remembered the day in 1943 when he went to Nannup with his father, Carter Harbeck, to pick up the second-hand tractor. “When Dad started that tractor, my brother Ron took off down the hill and straight home, it frightened him that much!” Until 1945 this tractor was used at Acton Park for cutting hay and general use around the Cuthbert farm which the Harbeck’s were working. After which the tractor was dismantled and the engine put to use driving a docking saw for the Harbeck Brothers timber mill across the road from the farm. After the timber mill closed John Harbeck rescued the engine and used it himself until his father, Carter Harbeck, donated it to the Busselton Museum. Only the wheels and engine survive of the original tractor but these are the parts that were used when it was mounted in the mill. John Harbeck then spent more than six months lovingly restoring the engine into working condition.