first - pardon me - i have posted without introducing myself and don't feel right getting away with that. Born eight months into 1960 i fancy the 50's are where i am from because it would explain a lot. I don't like talking about myself too much so instead how about something i seem to have in common with a few here - the 'got it from my dad' thing? 'One man's meat is another mans poison / my favourite car is an Avions Voison' was something he kinda taught me; not gospel truth - just parable; he, and i, reserve the right to differ. As far as i know he did most of his apprenticeship at Kellow-Falkiner's, cnr. Russell & Lt. Burke Sts in Melbourne, Australia; Riley, Wolseley and Morris - not yet BMC. K-F were also agents for Packard then and Studebaker later, also Rolls and Bentley @ Commercial Rd. and after ending up out there, he worked for Bendell's Motors in Ferntree Gully or Bayswater until, around '62, going to Mercedes-Benz in Fishermans Bend - which might have been AMI - doing Ponton assembly from CKD, but after they had shifted him to something too clerical he, er, became a lighthouse keeper - as you do. Somewhere in there was a stint of National Service, RAEME of course, but what his record will show i can't imagine (mum reckoned he broke both arms to get out) some Vintage Drivers Club membership and having at least one article with photos on vintage cars published in a dodgy series of books called 'Mans World' ... did his Matriculation on Wilsons Prom, Cape Nelson, Deal Island, Cape Everard (Point Hicks) then back at Cape Nelson, when he took a bond from the Education Department ( BA thesis on Aust. Comic Strips in Australia; social/historic aspects of...) served out teaching humanity at FTG Tech. for 3 years( during which became custodial parent to a 13 y.o ) then went back to Monash, then to Latrobe (PhD on the Returned Servicemans League and party politics between the wars) and having run out of academic options took a teaching type job with a white-collar union. Now in retired he researches WWI stories which sometimes get published and still runs a Morris, though it's a '64 Mini-Minor and he doesn't service it himself any more. That, then is where i'm coming from; going on would be more about me, so if you don't mind ... steven
thank you very much (which as a nod to Far North Queensland, is where the name came from, btw) i like it here ...
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