Brompton rat controlled grass fires

By Stephen Burns
Updated January 15 2020 - 8:35am, first published December 23 2019 - 9:47am
David Gray, Muttaburra with the original Brompton Rat designed and built by his father and grandfather in 1957. Photo: Jenni Gray
David Gray, Muttaburra with the original Brompton Rat designed and built by his father and grandfather in 1957. Photo: Jenni Gray

It was a simple machine, designed and built in a station workshop in western Queensland, and out of fashion now but for many years the Brompton Rat was successful in containing many grass fires on the open plains.

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