Newman Brothers’ service cars line up in Murchison during the 1927 tour of the Duke and Duchess of York. At front left is Newmans’ first large service car, a Cadillac 314 with a V8 motor, known as ‘the Glasshouse’. The young man standing in the centre is Jack (later Sir Jack) Newman. His father, Tom, and his uncle Harry started a horse coach service in 1879, and bought their first service car in 1911. The move to cars was sped by the sale of 50 of Newmans’ horses – to the army for the Sinai–Palestine campaign of the First World War.