Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "" video.

  1. 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.....
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  2. 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.
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  3. 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.
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  4. 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."
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  5. 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.
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