My involvement with a Barber-Greene bucket loading elevator started, when I bumped into an old acquaintance, and the conversation got around to how we were filling in our days. I told him that I had become involved with vintage machinery restoration as, at that time, I was helping with restoration work on an Aveling and Porter steam roller at the South Coast Restoration Society, at Heritage Park, Pimpama, Queensland. 

He informed me that he knew of a vintage machine that might be of interest to me, but it was in a local storage yard and was due to go to Sims Scrap Metal. He also told me that he believed that this machine had some World War Two history to it.

After finding out where it was, I went to have a look. It appeared as if th