James Hall Museum of Transport

James Hall Museum of Transport is a transport museum that aims to preserve and promote the history of hundreds of years of transport in South Africa in particular, and Africa in general. It is the largest transport museum in Africa. It is located at Pioneers' Park beside the Wemmer Pan in La Rochelle, Johannesburg, South Africa. It was established in 1964 by Jimmie Hall and the City of Johannesburg.

The museum exhibits carriages from the period 1870 to 1910. These include Cape carts, two-wheeled carriages that were specially adapted for use on the South African roads; also rickshaws, hearses, mail coaches and ox wagons.

Some of the two-wheeled vehicles housed within the museum are penny-farthings, tandems, tricycles, and vintage and classic motorcycles.

This collection includes several double decker buses formerly used in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. There are vehicles from Daimler, Leyland, AEC and Guy. A 1952 RT double-decker London bus has been preserved, in working order, and is used for sightseeing tours. It also has a 1958 Guy double-decker diesel bus, one of 30 ever produced.

The exhibit has a range of fire engines and firefighting equipment, from a 1913 Merryweather Steam Pump to a 1947 Dennis with an 8-cylinder Rolls-Royce engine. Others include the 1936 Magirus Deutz with a 45-metre extension ladder and a Ford Thames fire engine from the Randburg Fire Department.

Firefighting artefacts included in the exhibit are extinguishers, fire buckets, fire alarms, hand pumps, and hoses, and the original alarm board and switch box mechanism from the Berea Fire Station.

Other fire engines include:

The museum has variety of motor vehicles with the oldest being a 1900 Clément-Panhard. The Clément-Panhard took part in the 1928 Emancipation Run and finished with an average speed of 22 kph. It has a 1959 Mayoral Rolls-Royce.