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Note per the OP, we are talking of automotive tools and parts not manufacturing more generally.
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Ainsworth still manufacture poker machines in Sydney,and the company I work for here in Melbourne still manufactures many components for them,as well as manufacturing engine mounts for both V6 and V8 VF Commodores(spare parts only now).
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Csa made wheels here, doubt they do any more.?
Camry was the last car to have Aussie made wheels apparently. (Apart from Carbon revolution) Edit. Sorry just realized that Csa and Mullins were the same company.
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best boot ever
I used to wear Blundstones but when they went Chinese the quality dropped so I bought a pair of RM Williams, the buggers will last a lifetime AND made in Adelaide
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Best boots in my opinion is Oliver, made in Ballarat. Put them on new and they are so comfortable straight up. No breaking in like other work boots.
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Automotive and manufacturing workforce wear work boots.
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heritagestonemason.com/Fordlouisvillerestoration In order that the labour of centuries past may not be in vain during the centuries to come...... D. Diderot 1752
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I made Damper the other day.
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BAII RTV - with Raptor V S/C. RTV Power FG G6ET 50th Anniversary in Sensation. While the basic Ford Six was code named Barra, the Turbo version clearly deserved its very own moniker – again enter Gordon Barfield.
We asked him if the engine had actually been called “Seagull” and how that came about. “Actually it was just call “Gull”, because I named it that. Because we knew it was going to poo on everything”. |
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Victa lawnmowers are owned by The US Company Briggs & Stratton..
https://www.victa.com/au/en_au/suppo...n-company.html |
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Mowers aren't motor vehicle parts and tools.
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Unidrive - Gone
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gone: Pilkington Glass, big factory in Geelong, I remember seeing it when it was in full swing. Building still there.
and (sob) - went past the Geelong Ford panel plant recently, it's being pulled down :( Still here, not auto - Nectre Fireplaces. Excellent product, SA made. Do we still make lawnmowers or washing machines? How about mops and other household items?
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and https://www.flexibledrive.com.au/about/our-history Quote:
Or are they two different companies?
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The 'Flexible Drive' (former 'Flexible Drive Agencies') that exists today is the 1985 aftermarket division - the other branches of Flexible Drive are all dead and buried. Flexible Drive Agencies was on deaths doorstep circa 2014 as well. |
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![]() Back in '08, they began making plastic water tanks out the back knowing full well the auto industry (their main customers) were on the brink of closing down. I googled them and it said permanently closed. |
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One of the major OEM's forcing cost downs on suppliers every year, not viable. They were all in with Mitsubishi in Adelaide - you know what happened there. Here is an interesting document covering the early days of their downfall - here is an extract from this document: Quote:
There is a story with the tank manufacturing and its not what it seems. In 2019 the only way manufacturing can survive in Australia is low volume high quality. You can't compete with mass produced basic assembly items like automotive cables when you have a work force that will work under a tin roof with a dirt floor and get paid a bowl of rice a month, assembly items like automotive cables are a commodity, if you're competing in 'commodities' its a race to the bottom as Flexdrive Cables found out. Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 17-12-2019 at 09:52 PM. |
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Oh yeah, does anyone remember OKA 4x4 based in Ossy Park in Perth, I think?
They made the beastliest heavy duty 4x4 and 6x6 in the 1990s.
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RFW trucks (hayseed) made in Chester Hill, Sydney for quite a while, long gone now but there are still a few running around Mascot and the airport, some are still working in the mining and railway maintenance industries. EDIT from earlier post....... sadly after 135 years Oliver boots of Ballarat closed up manufacturing in 2018, sacking 20 staff.
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The stamping and engine plants have been sold to pelegra group and are being refurbished. |
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Still here.... Peerless Air compressors, still Oz owned and manufactured here in Victoria.
Gone since the 80s.... Leader trucks, Mack (COE) and UD (Conv) cabs Qld built.
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Ive had an article from I think it was boston consulting on my wall for a while now that puts Oz at the top of the most expensive for wages and energy cost , worldwide
I guess that is why we are uncompetitive in manufacturing Although I do know someone who builds highly unusual stuff and that is where people will beat a path to you
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BA Falcon killed them. AU was the last to have Aussie made glass. Ford basically said bugger off, we no longer require your services.
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