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    Default 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=HC4s4kaQBjc
    Cheers, Joe
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    Thanks for the link Joe

    Rogerbaker

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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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    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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    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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    We even have chep pallets here in the US of A.

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    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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