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2 years 2 months ago #229998
by Pierre
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A little off topic, but just sorting through some old books & came across this which I thought the forum would find interesting!!.
In another life as a manager & had a copy of The Toyota Way which offered some key management principles, Inside the book was a loose sheet from the Toyota CEO at the time Max Yasuda (2013).
His letter sums up our manufacturing demise, let's hope we learn something from this if we ever get back to serious manufacturing again!
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In another life as a manager & had a copy of The Toyota Way which offered some key management principles, Inside the book was a loose sheet from the Toyota CEO at the time Max Yasuda (2013).
His letter sums up our manufacturing demise, let's hope we learn something from this if we ever get back to serious manufacturing again!
cheers
Pierre
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2 years 2 months ago #230005
by cobbadog
Cheers Cobba & Cobbarette
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Replied by cobbadog on topic Off Topic - MANUFACTURING - THE WAY IT WAS
This was found out near Coonabarabran. It was a small private dealership. So many people have asked to buy it only to be refused by the elderly owner who is in a home. I think it would have looked good hanging over Bongo too but it was never going to happen.
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2 years 2 months ago #230012
by Pierre
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Ha ha JOHN.K, your probably right, therein laid another issue!
Cobbadog- nice looking sign & would look good, but aren’t Bongos built by Mazda? ISTBC
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Cobbadog- nice looking sign & would look good, but aren’t Bongos built by Mazda? ISTBC
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2 years 2 months ago - 2 years 2 months ago #230017
by cobbadog
Cheers Cobba & Cobbarette
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Replied by cobbadog on topic Off Topic - MANUFACTURING - THE WAY IT WAS
Yes Pierre that is where Dee borrowed the name from, plus she thought it was cute. :whistle:
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2 years 2 months ago #230035
by JOHN.K.
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Back in the late 60s,there was a know all pommy at work who announced he was going to drive his Hillman station wagon to Adelaide for his holidays ,with wife ,kids ,dog and cat.......he did it ,via the Birdsville Track.
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2 years 2 months ago #230084
by mammoth
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.......and not forgetting Lang's cross country adventure in the family Hillman described by him so well so many threads ago.
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2 years 2 months ago #230088
by hayseed
Exactly, It's amazing how many old two Wheel Drive cars got to drive Places back Then. ...That Everyone Today tries & tell you You Need a Four Wheel Dive & heap of gear. that would have got laughed at back in the 50's 7 60's..(or even earlier)
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Replied by hayseed on topic Off Topic - MANUFACTURING - THE WAY IT WAS
.......and not forgetting Lang's cross country adventure in the family Hillman described by him so well so many threads ago.
Exactly, It's amazing how many old two Wheel Drive cars got to drive Places back Then. ...That Everyone Today tries & tell you You Need a Four Wheel Dive & heap of gear. that would have got laughed at back in the 50's 7 60's..(or even earlier)
"Be who you are and say what you feel...
Because those that matter...
don't mind...
And those that mind....
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2 years 2 months ago #230090
by JOHN.K.
Replied by JOHN.K. on topic Off Topic - MANUFACTURING - THE WAY IT WAS
Not so far off topic........the Hillmans and other Rootes cars were assembled here by a company called LNC Industries.....LNC also set up a factory to make VWs here ,and the Australian VWs were said to be better made than the German ones..........LNC were ripped apart by asset strippers in the 1980s depression.
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