GERALDINE TRACTOR AND AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM
Geraldine is a small town in South Canterbury that describes itself as “The Gateway to the Southern Lakes” — Lakes Tekapo, Pukaki, and Ohau. It is on a popular tourist route between Christchurch and Queenstown, and is promoted as a good place to break a journey, have a meal, or visit a museum.
The Geraldine Vintage Car and Machinery Museum is run by the Geraldine Vintage Car and Machinery Club, which was established in 1967 after a display, organised by the Geraldine Young Farmers Club the previous year at nearby Woodbury, had shown how many vintage and interesting machines were in the district.
In 1969 local businessman Jack Morrison bought a coal and timber yard in Geraldine’s Talbot Street. He erected a building at the front of the site to house his collection of 20 Morris cars, his father having been the district’s Morris agent. He then offered the machinery club the use of the rest of the property.
