THE YULEBA community took a giant leap back in time this week, celebrating National Cobb and Co Day with a procession from the school to the main street.

Donning their best period attire to mark the occasion, community members took the small town through a time machine to when Cobb and Co was winding up its business.

Ninety-four years ago the last Cobb and Co coach service to run in Australia arrived in Yuleba from Surat, heralding the end of an era.

The coach was driven by Fred (Tommy) Thompson who, the next day, drove a motor vehicle back to Surat.

The procession was led by town crier David Bowden who, after arriving in the park, proclaimed it "National Cobb and Co Day”.

After the singing of Advance Australia Fair, school captain Katie Bell gave some historical details about the reach of Cobb and Co in Australia.

Owen Murphy, whose father was a pack horse mailman, brought his horse loaded with pack saddles, swag, sugar bag and camp oven.

Owen unpacked his horse and explained how everything a mailman or drover needed had to be loaded onto their pack horses.

There was a display in the park of a miniature Cobb and Co coach, built by Fred George of Roma, as well as information about points of interest on the Cobb and Co Way, from Yuleba to Surat.

Special thanks go to the Roma Historical Motor Club for bringing old vehicles to the event.

The oldest was a 1927 Oldsmobile, owned by Ken and Karen Dawes, was made three years after the last coach ran.

Everyone enjoyed a lovely warm afternoon in a park where years before bullock wagons parked and Cobb and Co coaches pulled up to deliver passengers.