Re: Re: SER1 60th Anniversary

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Also, at one time the Snowy Mountain Scheme had the largest fleet of Land Rover
anywhere in the world, at one stage over 700!!  Was the first organisation in the
world to make it manditory to wear seat belts, and forced Land Rover to improve
their brakes, as some vehicles were going through a set of shoes in less than a
week!!  When Rover refused to do anything to improve the brakes, the head of the
scheme grounded every Land Rover they had until Rover did something about it.

Regards Craig Murray.



> Diana Alan <dianaa@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx> wrote:
> 
> Mark
> 
> Exactly the Snowy Mountain hydro electric project.  The first Land 
> Rovers
> imported into Australia were imported for the project and Cooma was the
> Headquarters of the Snowy Mountain Authority.
> 
> Diana
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Strangways" <mark.strangways@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx>
> To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:46 AM
> Subject: Re: SER1 60th Anniversary
> 
> 
> HI Diana,
> 
> Is there any signifigance of holding the 60th event in Cooma? I know
> that the 50th was held there (in fact I have a cloth patch that Allan
> kindly gave me) and I have also been to Cooma hunting for relics of the
> Snowy Mountain Hydro project, but is there any other reason?
> 
> Cheers
> Mark
> 
> >>> dianaa@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx 15/12/2004 13:30:40 >>>
> Tom
> 
> That's great we can get to the Anniversary but have to pay full fare to
> get back.  Does anyone have a spare LST (Landing Ship Tank) they could
> loan us?
> 
> There is always the 60th Anniversary to be held in Cooma, Australia,
> everyone is also invited to that as well.
> 
> Diana
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> 
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