Thread: Car show elitists

G'day Brian Hjelm & PhilipA

Can either of you remember the recruitment desks at Mascot airport when the migrant planes came in, from memory about once a month, I took some personel from Zetland down a couple of times,they said that Ford GMH and themselves would set up a desk each, and recruit the required number each needed as they came out of customs

cheers

Originally Posted by UncleHo

G'day Brian Hjelm & PhilipA

Can either of you remember the recruitment desks at Mascot airport when the migrant planes came in, from memory about once a month, I took some personel from Zetland down a couple of times,they said that Ford GMH and themselves would set up a desk each, and recruit the required number each needed as they came out of customs

cheers

Uncle, we always, or almost always, as Elvis said in that Blue Hawaii song, needed assembly labour, hence the permanent newspaper ads. Better jobs were readily available then. Even quite well paid clerical jobs went unfilled for weeks at a time. Mind you, plenty of other factories had similar problems.

Australians would not do process work for the wages on offer. The only Aussies in the plant other than foremen and supervisors were blokes who had been there for ever and probably could not get anything better or blokes who would soon leave. "Wogs" worked in factories. On payday the phrase used was "going down the plant to pay the wogs".

Originally Posted by PhilipA

Ford had a riot in 1975 where among other things they tried to break into the computer room at Broadmeadows to disable it.

I recall that they were stirred up by English communist Trade unionists who had emigrated because they were blacklisted in UK.

My old man worked in the computer room in 1975 ill ask him about it

Vlad, I gave up judging long ago. I got sick of the arguments.

But here are the basics. In a high end concours any fault will lose points. If you are hoping for a trophy in a heavily contested class then your car must be perfect in every way. The Holden with the wrong colour accents in the hub caps would not get a first prize, nor would the Falcon GT with the wrong filter.

Categories are:-

A+ - Fresh or almost fresh restoration, perfect in every detail, showing no signs of wear and tear or almost none. Or - A 1st Class low mileage original, everything correct, and showing only minor wear and tear.

The original would win.

Categories A and A- are progressively lesser than A+ but still very, very, good cars.

B+ - Complete and correct or almost correct in good condition needing only a little work to be A- or A.

A more worn original or an older but still good restoration is in this category.

C - Restorable, essentially complete and sound, often registered and usable, a good prospect for restoration to B or A without major problems locating missing or unserviceable bits.

Anything less is a parts car or an incomplete and damaged or badly neglected car requiring ground up restoration.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

We could not use certain Mediterranean ethnic groups in the lead fill and solder discing stations. They were alleged to have a genetic sensitivity to lead in excess of the norm. Most new assemblers started in the body shop particularly on spot welding stations and North Europeans on lead.

Dunlop Australia had a similar rule for these reasons in their battery factory in the seventies. Not sure the reason or if it is known why the research has been around for many years to show they adsorb lead more easily and hence have problems. One of those can see the outcome but cannot prove how it happened cases.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

We could not use certain Mediterranean ethnic groups in the lead fill and solder discing stations. They were alleged to have a genetic sensitivity to lead in excess of the norm. Most new assemblers started in the body shop particularly on spot welding stations and North Europeans on lead.
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You probably meant "a higher tolerance to the norm".

I think I know who did that research! It was Dr Josef Mengele, he had a research facility in Oświęcim Poland. A lot of his work has been discredited since originally published.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

You probably meant "a higher tolerance to the norm".

I think I know who did that research! It was Dr Josef Mengele, he had a research facility in Oświęcim Poland. A lot of his work has been discredited since originally published.

Whoever and whatever. Our personnel people were convinced of this and we could not employ certain "wogs" in the lead areas.

Brian it was more a local car show that a concours d'elegance !

The bloke making the criticism was a complet tosser.