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24th Jan 2022, 10:03 PM #1
Interesting Australian History - from a time when we had actual governments....
This is of course a government propaganda film, but it does show people and machines in a different context to today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC4s4kaQBjcCheers, Joe
retired - less energy, more time to contemplate projects and more shed time....
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24th Jan 2022, 11:15 PM #2Senior Member
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Thanks for the link Joe
Rogerbaker
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25th Jan 2022, 09:12 AM #3Golden Member
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Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool. Is that the origin of CHEP pallets?
EDIT yes indeed it is. I've moved a lot of those pallets but never heard of the origin before. Didn't even know it was an acronym.
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27th Jan 2022, 09:43 PM #4Member
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I had to laugh at the quote in the film how machinery allowed them to do 4 weeks worth of a bridge build in less than a day! Made me think of the never ending multi-year freeway work in Vic (while never actually seeing anything being done).
I suspect the unions wouldn't tolerate that sort of work behaviour nowadays!
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29th Jan 2022, 02:35 PM #5Diamond Member
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Disregard the picture request Joe, I clicked on the wrong one.
All The Best steran50 Stewart
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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30th Jan 2022, 07:34 AM #6
We even have chep pallets here in the US of A.
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30th Jan 2022, 12:00 PM #7
Thanks Joe,
Joe has left the remainder of that title left unsaid.
More like from a time when Governments had a bit of a clue and less bureaucracy.
They saw a an opportunity in the war surplus machinery and matched that with a need that was bleeding obvious.
That sense of get the job done and pave the way to get it done quickly and efficiently has gone unfortunately.
I can vividly remember the straddle loaders . As a kid ,I never tired of watching them.
The Fowler cranes and even were still around in the early seventies .
Grahame
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