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19 Oct 2017, 09:19 (Ref:3774993) | #1 | ||
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Holden’s Last Australian Made Car
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Happy David Thexton Day, 21st March 2003 “I am not uncertain” - Dollar Bill Stern, Billions “Fear stimulates my imagination” - Don Draper, Mad Men “Everybody Lies” - Dr Gregory House, House “Trust But Verify” - Commissioner Frank Reagan, Blue Bloods |
19 Oct 2017, 09:34 (Ref:3774996) | #2 | |
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Certainly a big moment in our manufacturing history. Must be a strange feeling for the staff there.
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And Just Like That, The Noise Stops
And everyone goes home for the last time, never to return. It is no more emotional to lose Holden than to lose Toyota, Ford, Mitsubishi or Nissan. But they were the last to go, the last to keep firing. Australia will never be the same again |
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Happy David Thexton Day, 21st March 2003 “I am not uncertain” - Dollar Bill Stern, Billions “Fear stimulates my imagination” - Don Draper, Mad Men “Everybody Lies” - Dr Gregory House, House “Trust But Verify” - Commissioner Frank Reagan, Blue Bloods |
20 Oct 2017, 02:56 (Ref:3775141) | #4 | ||
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bye slower version of a Ford Falcon.
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Very sad indictment of successive government and business mis-management. Final down hill slide probably started by the Button Plan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_car_plan |
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The good old days sure seem like a long time ago!! |
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Very sad time. I feel for the workers. Hopefully in the future they can re-start manufacturing
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Perhaps Australia needs a Donald Trump
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Very sad day indeed....
I look at the industry in the UK and how it basically dried up as well, but today it has come back and there's a solid industry running. One day, we can only hope.... |
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Very sad news for me, I'm with yours, Australians, in this sorrow.
Harsh times... |
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