This Day in History: 1920-09-06

A daily horse-drawn school bus service commenced, transporting West Toodyay children to the Toodyay State School. In Alf Thomas’s book, it was said to be the first feeder bus system in the State, and that the first contract was let to David L. Leeder.

Sources:
Toodyay herald, 11 Sept. 1920, p.4; 20 Nov. 1920, p.4.
Alf T. Thomas.  A history of Toodyay. Toodyay Road Board, 1949, p.36.