[modeleng] Re: Nostalgia-as it is quiet

Alan

--- Alan Stepney  wrote:

> I recently aquired some Mechanics magazines from the late 40's-early 50's.
> 

> 
> Some of the comments the "experts" made back then made me smile.
> 
> A new factory is to be built in Australia for the new Holden car. It will 
> eventually be able to produce 20,000 cars a year, but where a market would 
> be found for such a vast number of cars is not yet known.
> 
I remember reading an advert in 'The Age' newspaper in Melbourne in the mid 
1960s for assembly
line workers at the Holden factory in Dandenong.  Part of the advert read 'No 
English required for
this job'.

This was at the time of the £10 immigration scheme and there were lots of 
southern Europeans
taking advantage of the cheap fare for a new life.

A bit like the UK these days.

Dave
The Emerald Isle



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