Well I just watched my working life , so much I can relate to . So much has changed in 70 years. I worked the Darwin wharf when they docked one of the first container ships , Darwin Trader. As for the equipment , I`ve still got an old Clark forklift in the shed . It has a Holden red 149 on gas . It gets regular use . I`m glad they recorded this stuff . I never had time or thought about it .
2:31 Back in the seventies at the local butter factory, a mate and I would load semi trailers with 56 lb blocks of butter all by hand, 30 years after WWII. They only got a fork lift after I left, LOL. 7:49 God help me, machinery worked on hours, not bloody miles. Now at the end, we ask ourselfs what the hell hapenned? We built just about everything we owned, even a fighter plane though it never got a shot off in anger. Not too long after we built our own cars, great cars cars, trucks and tractors. Once we called ourselves the clever country, now we're just a bloody warehouse for Chinese goods. We had the best and most efficient dairy industry in the world! Look at us now. Maybe,, one day,, people will wake up (but I doubt it).
Great film. Australia was a different place then. The government felt responsibility to provide leadership and began enterprises like this. Now responsibility is avoided and progress is privatised to benefit the wealthy. And to think the post-war optimism based on coal and deisel would come crashing down 70 years later with climate issues; no one knew... The coal and gas lobby are still pushing it in Canberra, and the politicians are still listening. The NFSA, a government enterprise, have done a good job here. Thanks
Great shot of the Yellow Express REO prime mover hauling the fuel tank jinker style also the Commonwealth Heavy Equipment Pool or what is now known as CHEP Equipment Handliing
The commentary in this film is very diplomatic. It describes how equipment abandoned in situ at the end of the War was recovered, refurbished, and put to work. What it omitted to say was that most of this good equipment was abandoned in situ by the American military.
the trick with these type of stuff even today, is that its cheaper to make new equipment than to transport it back home and repair it. Thats why the US military even today offers its allies equipment for free, they have to sort out the transportation of it tho.
I'm sure that one day we will get some decent politicians who have a bit of vision. . . And when we DO get them, we can keep them in the same game reserve compound where we keep our pink unicorns.
Ahhh the golden years when things made sense and Australia was a country that could actually do things on its own, where it worked with private industry and provide jobs and stability for the community at all levels.
Private industry is what ruined australia, if the government emplyment had stayed we would still produce locally. Private industry wanted the cheapest workers possible so they abandoned us.
Hah yeah, they kept saying "Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool" and I was thinking it was unweildy, and then wondered what the initials were, then went "ohhhh"
These guys know what they're doing... no fork lift fails and collapsing rows of shelving to be seen here... ;) Although funny how the three additional forkies at the other end happen to be the same trucks and drivers... ;)
I never knew that Australia went to former US bases around the pacific and picked up our abandoned equipment. I was under the impression that as usual our government just destroyed mostly like new equipment in place or pushed it off into the water. Im glad it was put to good use and helped Australia after the war. My Dad had one of those Clark forklifts from 68 until some time in the late 80s when I scrapped it. It weighed about 13,000#. I wonder if the Caribous they operated until recent years come from the ones we abandoned in Vietnam. There is a lot of good equipment in Afghanistan that maybe they could pick up......
I was still using a Clarke, battery operated pedestrian forklift when the car manufacturer I worked for shut its doors for the last time recently, 201X. This type of machine was already in use during WW2. Says a lot really.
The map of the *Commonwealth* of Australia 🇦🇺 used to include *WESTERN* Australia, NT and SA when I did Geography in Primary School. I knew that the guys in Canberra (you know, those "politicians"), were living in a bubble, but I had no idea that their education was so bad, bad, bad. Meanwhile in *WESTERN* Australia, we do our *OWN THING . . .*
It hasn't changed. Victorians still think that WA is that little place out West that won't behave itself, too stubborn to do what Victoria does, forgetting that distance are vastly greater and climate significantly hotter.
I found this very interesting but usually films coming from the Film Australia Collection or the NFSA have a date at either the beginning or the end but unfortunately there is not one on this. If anybody knows when this film was made, I would be very interested to know.
CHEP got a vast quantity of pallets at the end of WW2 because they had been abandoned here by the American armed forces. Legally, some might still be owned by the US Navy - that's why CHEP had to be a government owned enterprise - the forklifts and cranes were also left behind by the Americans. A private company could not establish title. Within a few years, though, when the CHEP was privatised.
I remember an old boss telling me how the Communists were trying to gain sway through the warfie`s union . Some would be all for it , others not . Quite often a gang number would be an indication one way or another . They were all good blokes .
I was wondering that myself. It seems unmistakably the hammer and sickle---could if have been that in 1946 the USSR was still regarded as an ally or at least benign? I can't imagine that that would've flown once the cold war started in earnest.
All that work to move food 600 yards? Why no just have the empty warehouse hold what the full one was going to get? There were some contrivances here, like the men moving lumber planks super slow for effect.
If you look at the numbers (and hammer and sickles?!) on the forklifts, the ones loading and offloading are the same ones.. so I don't think there was even any movement.
Well I just watched my working life , so much I can relate to . So much has changed in 70 years. I worked the Darwin wharf when they docked one of the first container ships , Darwin Trader. As for the equipment , I`ve still got an old Clark forklift in the shed . It has a Holden red 149 on gas . It gets regular use . I`m glad they recorded this stuff . I never had time or thought about it .
Thanks for sharing!
Did the wharfies go on strike ?
So important that this history is preserved.
Many thanks.
Absolutely amazing to see Australian manufacturing and construction in its heyday.
fantastic, thank you so much for those videos of the good old times 👍🏽
Glad you enjoyed it
@@NFSAFilms any videos soon? Two weeks it’s been hahaha 🤣
2:31 Back in the seventies at the local butter factory, a mate and I would load semi trailers with 56 lb blocks of butter all by hand, 30 years after WWII. They only got a fork lift after I left, LOL. 7:49 God help me, machinery worked on hours, not bloody miles. Now at the end, we ask ourselfs what the hell hapenned? We built just about everything we owned, even a fighter plane though it never got a shot off in anger. Not too long after we built our own cars, great cars cars, trucks and tractors. Once we called ourselves the clever country, now we're just a bloody warehouse for Chinese goods.
We had the best and most efficient dairy industry in the world! Look at us now. Maybe,, one day,, people will wake up (but I doubt it).
Great film. Australia was a different place then. The government felt responsibility to provide leadership and began enterprises like this. Now responsibility is avoided and progress is privatised to benefit the wealthy. And to think the post-war optimism based on coal and deisel would come crashing down 70 years later with climate issues; no one knew... The coal and gas lobby are still pushing it in Canberra, and the politicians are still listening.
The NFSA, a government enterprise, have done a good job here. Thanks
More videos like this please, very valuable and entertaining
Great shot of the Yellow Express REO prime mover hauling the fuel tank jinker style also the Commonwealth Heavy Equipment Pool or what is now known as CHEP Equipment Handliing
The commentary in this film is very diplomatic. It describes how equipment abandoned in situ at the end of the War was recovered, refurbished, and put to work. What it omitted to say was that most of this good equipment was abandoned in situ by the American military.
the trick with these type of stuff even today, is that its cheaper to make new equipment than to transport it back home and repair it. Thats why the US military even today offers its allies equipment for free, they have to sort out the transportation of it tho.
Great video, thanks for sharing it.
We rose to the occasion way back then, we can do it again if we can get some decent politicians who have a bit of vision.
I'm sure that one day we will get some decent politicians who have a bit of vision. . . And when we DO get them, we can keep them in the same game reserve compound where we keep our pink unicorns.
Ahhh the golden years when things made sense and Australia was a country that could actually do things on its own, where it worked with private industry and provide jobs and stability for the community at all levels.
What?
There's an awful lot of government jobs being presented in this video..
Private industry is what ruined australia, if the government emplyment had stayed we would still produce locally. Private industry wanted the cheapest workers possible so they abandoned us.
Awesome video!!!
Thanks!!
@@NFSAFilms yeah very interesting.
Only two generations ago!
How far we have come. 🙂
Well now I know what that CHEP brand stands for on those pallets, never knew it was initials.
Mind blown for me too.
Hah yeah, they kept saying "Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool" and I was thinking it was unweildy, and then wondered what the initials were, then went "ohhhh"
Great Work!
That was so interesting 🇦🇺
These guys know what they're doing... no fork lift fails and collapsing rows of shelving to be seen here... ;) Although funny how the three additional forkies at the other end happen to be the same trucks and drivers... ;)
I never knew that Australia went to former US bases around the pacific and picked up our abandoned equipment. I was under the impression that as usual our government just destroyed mostly like new equipment in place or pushed it off into the water. Im glad it was put to good use and helped Australia after the war. My Dad had one of those Clark forklifts from 68 until some time in the late 80s when I scrapped it. It weighed about 13,000#. I wonder if the Caribous they operated until recent years come from the ones we abandoned in Vietnam. There is a lot of good equipment in Afghanistan that maybe they could pick up......
A lot ended up in New Zealand as well .
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Interesting, thanks 💕💕
Definitely a lot to be said in favour of containers.
Back in the 80s there were still some of those forklifts in service, worn out flogged out pieces of crap but what a service life
I was still using a Clarke, battery operated pedestrian forklift when the car manufacturer I worked for shut its doors for the last time recently, 201X. This type of machine was already in use during WW2. Says a lot really.
Yeah but throw away Chinese garbage is better for the environment apparently.
The map of the *Commonwealth* of Australia 🇦🇺 used to include *WESTERN* Australia, NT and SA when I did Geography in Primary School. I knew that the guys in Canberra (you know, those "politicians"), were living in a bubble, but I had no idea that their education was so bad, bad, bad.
Meanwhile in *WESTERN* Australia, we do our *OWN THING . . .*
You certainly DO do your own thing over there... in the "zero-covid" hermit kingdom.
Do keep up . Western Australia has seceded
It hasn't changed. Victorians still think that WA is that little place out West that won't behave itself, too stubborn to do what Victoria does, forgetting that distance are vastly greater and climate significantly hotter.
In the early development of this they only covered the larger freight volume states.
Wow the size of the logs
Does this video show the painters and dockers haha 😆
Assistindo daqui do Brazil 🇧🇷👋👋👋
I found this very interesting but usually films coming from the Film Australia Collection or the NFSA have a date at either the beginning or the end but unfortunately there is not one on this.
If anybody knows when this film was made, I would be very interested to know.
Hi Jackie - this one is from 1946. Thanks for watching.
Always worth reading the description where the 1946 date is and more.
Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool ? Explains why CHEP pallets are everywhere 🤔🍻
OH! Thank you for pointing that out! :)
CHEP got a vast quantity of pallets at the end of WW2 because they had been abandoned here by the American armed forces. Legally, some might still be owned by the US Navy - that's why CHEP had to be a government owned enterprise - the forklifts and cranes were also left behind by the Americans. A private company could not establish title. Within a few years, though, when the CHEP was privatised.
I accidentally touched my mouse. I meant to say "... when the American equipment was worn out and had been replaced with new, CHEP was privatised."
That is how Chep started. Brambles were tied up in this as well
Anybody notice the Hammer & Sickle (communist) logos on the forklift at 9:15? It must have been some wharfie's little joke or wistful thinking.....
I remember an old boss telling me how the Communists were trying to gain sway through the warfie`s union . Some would be all for it , others not . Quite often a gang number would be an indication one way or another . They were all good blokes .
I was just looking for this comment lol
Well spotted.
And on a Clark forklift, no less. The U.S. provided a lot of equipment even if it was abandoned yet no mention of it.
I was wondering that myself. It seems unmistakably the hammer and sickle---could if have been that in 1946 the USSR was still regarded as an ally or at least benign? I can't imagine that that would've flown once the cold war started in earnest.
Today you wait at every government department as if time doesn't matter, employ more staff to speed things up
If only the UK would pull itself together today!
very cool
CHEP; not just a stack of blue pallets!
Good on those fellas
Turn this video into a drinking game.
Take a shot every time you hear Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool.
Are you taking a chep shot? ;)
Commonly known as CHEP pallets
All that work to move food 600 yards? Why no just have the empty warehouse hold what the full one was going to get? There were some contrivances here, like the men moving lumber planks super slow for effect.
If you look at the numbers (and hammer and sickles?!) on the forklifts, the ones loading and offloading are the same ones.. so I don't think there was even any movement.
The answer is..... containers ships...
how many dangerous manoeuvres with forklifts,a true compendium of absurdity
9:15 соommunist? 🤣
More government propaganda.
9:35 Communist Moment