At the brewery, he determined that local deliveries by horse drawn drays should continue into the 21st century.
A dray cart, placed across the road, remained at the far end of the ambush site.
The records show that there were normally six heavy horses which were used to pull the drays.
Paired horse drays were phased out by 1929.
In early days the flexible two-wheeled dray, with a centre pole and narrow iron tyres was commonly used.
Examples of gigs, swamp drays, drags, broughams, phaetons, bakers' carts, surreys, expresses, rigs, sociables, governess carts, night carts and milk carts are exhibited.
It started raining while the men who had been transferring the flour from a railway truck to a dray were away at lunch, and they had not covered the bags.
With a blind pony on the top in a cart or dray the driver has a pair of reins and can drive the horse straight.
