i'm impressed gadge with your recount of the Mobilco / Ariens Echo story, most accurate i've read, most are pretty far off the mark. When they moved into Middleborough Rd, they where still putting together SupaSwifts in the back shed.
I'm relying almost entirely on memory, but from first-hand knowledge of the events and personalities involved, at the time it all occurred. Not from latter-day research - there is much of the story that was never documented.
So I think that ODK is an appropriate place to do that documentation. Even though it's been piecemeal so far, CyberJack and I will likely try to draw the pieces into a more coherent article/thread, at some point.
We ex-Mobilco dealers used to curse the name of Mr A.Y. Zion, the architect of Mobilco's demise, but I've come to realise that he was very much a man of his time, and just a part of the adjustments that Australia had to make.
That is, in transitioning into the real world of global competition, after decades of over-protection behind high tariff barriers.
