The Ford Barn

updraught · 07-04-2025, 08:39 AM

Here in Oz we were linked into the British Empire at the time, and had heavy tariffs from elsewhere.
Come WW2 and we were gob smacked at the American advancement in mechanical technology. After the war the govt. here set up a division to go out and collect forklifts etc. that had been abandoned in the pacific and bring them back to transform the port handling facilities.
Wheat, for example was still being transported overseas in bags on sailing ships up till WW2.
Now, we invented the combine harvester at the turn of the century known as the Sunshine harvester (it became the biggest factory in the southern hemisphere), so one man could do a harvest. But it was designed for bags and stayed that way as the owner of Sunshine harvesters successfully partitioned the govt. for tariffs after WW1.
He knew that American mass production would be big competition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFyXwoy_Jww

07-04-2025, 08:39 AM	#1
updraught Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Australia Posts: 2,143	OT: Heavy machinery 100 years ago Here in Oz we were linked into the British Empire at the time, and had heavy tariffs from elsewhere. Come WW2 and we were gob smacked at the American advancement in mechanical technology. After the war the govt. here set up a division to go out and collect forklifts etc. that had been abandoned in the pacific and bring them back to transform the port handling facilities. Wheat, for example was still being transported overseas in bags on sailing ships up till WW2. Now, we invented the combine harvester at the turn of the century known as the Sunshine harvester (it became the biggest factory in the southern hemisphere), so one man could do a harvest. But it was designed for bags and stayed that way as the owner of Sunshine harvesters successfully partitioned the govt. for tariffs after WW1. He knew that American mass production would be big competition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFyXwoy_Jww