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Old 27-04-2024, 11:52 AM   #1
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Unhappy Former Ford plants in 2023

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Old 27-04-2024, 02:09 PM   #2
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@ 4mins and 7 secs, the Ford Louisville wasn't assembled here until 1975, first one off the line was a 75' petrol agitator.
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Old 27-04-2024, 03:03 PM   #3
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I helped deliver a large excavator there as one of the pieces of equipment going there to demolish the joint

Was in various stages of being pulled down, its pretty sad.
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Old 28-04-2024, 10:35 AM   #4
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Sad but true.

I took my son for a drive up the Hume a few months ago to see it all before it all eventually disappears.

RIP Oz Fords.
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Old 21-05-2024, 12:53 PM   #5
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Press lines turned into scrap.

No going back from here.

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