Bruce Macdonald OAM

摘要

Bruce has made a great difference in the saving for preservation of a vast array of steam machinery for the education and enjoyment of Australians of the future. This has been no mere intellectual exercise on his part; he has 'pulled on his boots', has spent large sums of his own money, and toiled for long hours on a voluntary basis to make sure that important items of steam machinery were saved from the scrap man's torch. Bruce saw with dismay many of the engineering items he admired as a boy falling to the scrap merchants during the Second World War. Following the war, he made his first acquisition in 1953, a Baldwin steam tram.This was almost singlehandedly restored in his back garden, and became the first operational item at the NSW Steam Tram and Railway Preservation Society site in Parramatta Park.This was followed by the acquisition of two more steam locomotives abandoned in a quarry at Kiama in southern NSW.