At the recent Clarens Heritage Association symposium, hosted on behalf of the Heritage Association of South Africa (HASA), Sandstone was honoured to receive a Gold Certificate Award for collecting, maintaining and exhibiting one of the finest collections of heritage transport and agricultural machinery in South Africa, and for ensuring that these grand examples of past implements and practices are preserved for future generations.

All our readers know our passion at Sandstone for our Oxen and we have been breeding more of these Afrikaner cattle over the last months. In spanning them for haulage duties is not always that easy and  recently we had to bring together the six head that have proved very troublesome and disobedient when in spanned.

We recently received two articles from Stewart Currie at  the RSSA Reef Branch, both from Allan Jorgensen, published many years ago in South African Transport magazine.  “7 Light Rails”, from September 1978, has a piece on the Lawley locomotives of Buzi Sugar, Mozambique, two of which survived in the Peter Rampton collection in the UK.

We recently ran a story on our Morris Ten after its restoration was completed, see:

https://www.sandstone-estates.com/index.php/classic-cars-64/45-classic-cars/3786-one-of-our-favourite-cars-at-sandstone

Since we published that article we have established that our vehicle’s chassis number, 2673, identifies the car as a 1933 model and not a 1934 model as originally thought.