James Hall Museum of Transport
Land-transport collection of ox wagons, steam tractors and vintage trams, family-run for decades.
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This guide to the James Hall Museum of Transport in Johannesburg follows the steam tractor known as Texas Jack, which once hauled ore through the Witwatersrand gold mines, and the car enthusiast Jimmie Hall who talked the city council into backing a museum for the vehicles a boom town kept discarding, starting in 1964. His son Peter Hall kept the collection growing for decades after him, adding ox wagons, horse trams and steam rollers along the way. Listen for the sound of Texas Jack firing up on the museum floor.
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