Re: Pendennis Castle

[keithm@commslab.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <86kpqk$isi$1@merki.connect.com.au> "Rod Gayford" <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au> writes:
>From: "Rod Gayford" <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au>
>Subject: Re: Pendennis Castle
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 05:25:30 +1100

>The point is that a foreign company that has exploited Australian workers
>for years and has been in the vanguard of the conservative reactionary
>forces attempting to destroy collective bargaining in this country has
>chosen to donate this locomotive to a UK based group and to my mind that
>says "stuff you Aussies" we will show you where our loyalties lay. Well, if
>all us gutless Aussies just want to lie back and be pissed over by this
>group then let it go. For me, I am contacting the Maritime unions and any
>other industrial union to have a black ban placed on its export. I bet
>Hamersley will back down once this gets in the papers and shows them up for
>what they are. I suppose I should not be surprised at the intelligence of a
>section of rail fans in Australia as they have been tipping money into that
>far northern NSW scrap yard for years.

You are a pathetic individual. It is this sort of crap which makes unions look 
stupid. Now go and get back into your hole.

Dave Malcolm

>Cheers

>Rod Gayford (also workplace delegate CPSU)
><chris@enet21.com.au> wrote in message
>388DA2D5.5EC05A3@enet21.com.au">news:388DA2D5.5EC05A3@enet21.com.au...
>> hi
>>
>> You must remember that it has been in Australia longer than it was in
>British
>> Rail (1947 -1964, 17 years) service and nearly as long as in GWR service
>(1923?
>> -1947). Historically Hamersley Iron have owned it longer  than British
>Rail.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> David Bennetts wrote:
>>
>> > <bf0017@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>86cemi$srb$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:86cemi$srb$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
>> > > Mmmmm,
>> > >
>> > > Time to put Pendennis Castle onto the Australian "Moveable Heritage"
>> > > List, just like the Me-109G about 12 years ago.
>> > >
>> > > Brett
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> > What's the point?  It isn't part of Australian history, why have it
>sitting
>> > in a remote part of Australia, where virtually no-one can access it, and
>it
>> > can't be operated.  If it went back to Britain it could be preserved and
>> > cherished for its significant heritage value.
>> >
>> > Just like the Melbourne W class trams gathering dust in the huge sheds
>at
>> > Newport, with their ban on export.  Totally pointless, they could be
>> > restored and run overseas where there is a demand for them, rather than
>> > mouldering away.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > David Bennetts
>> > Canberra
>>