Gilgandra Rural Museum

A volunteer-run rural museum on the Newell Highway with a specific reason to stop: Arthur Clifford Howard built and tested his first rotary hoe prototypes on his father's farm in the Gilgandra Shire in 1912, and the museum's Howard display traces the lineage through to the DH22 tractor — Howard's own 22hp overhead-cam engine, designed and built at Northmead between 1931 and 1953, one of the longest-running Australian tractor models ever made. Other working displays include windmill-powered machinery and the Man on the Thunderbox, Gilgandra's local answer to the Dog on the Tuckerbox. Open 9am–1pm daily, volunteers willing. Adults $5, children free.