[SEL] Distasterous news for the historical machinerymovementinAustralia!!!

cam grundy ponchie at ozemail.com.au
Tue May 17 05:52:30 PDT 2005


They will probably smash it all with an Excavator and hammer Peter, they can 
get more on a truck that way, heartbreaking to even think about it.  Cam
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter ogborne" <jopeter at omninet.net.au>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Distasterous news for the historical 
machinerymovementinAustralia!!!


> And how do you propose that rare and significant machinery can be 
> prevented from being sold as scrap . All this ''Scrap '' will be heaped up 
> and loaded into ships . I can just imagine the "Heritage Police'' checking 
> all this It will be manifested as scrap ....end of story!
> All i am saying is that i hope the sellers put aside [ at the source,ie 
> the farm ] what are considered rare and significant items.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Best, George" <George_Best at adp.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 12:49 AM
> Subject: RE: [SEL] Distasterous news for the historical machinery 
> movementinAustralia!!!
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>
>>
>>> Your Government put up a law banning exports of 'rare and significant'
>>> machinery, so the good stuff should be protected?  Certainly
>>> it cannot 'officially' be sold to overseas buyers without an
>>> export licence as I understand it, and Oz and NZ are the only
>>> countries that I am aware of that have these restrictions on old iron.
>>
>>> Peter A Forbes
>>
>> Peter,
>>
>> The Czech Republic also now requires paperwork to get an engine out of
>> the country.
>>
>> When the Czech Republic first opened up, engine collectors flooded in
>> and great quantities of Czech sideshafts and other engines were leaving
>> the country.  Someone finally realized that these engines were leaving
>> the country and they now have to okay any engines leaving the country.
>>
>> Of course as expected, that still doesn't stop good engines from leaving
>> the country.  I got a "3hp Little" engine out of there and it's the only
>> known water cooled Little to exist according to the Czech engine dealer.
>> Just takes a little extra payment to get the proper paperwork.  It's the
>> rarest Czech engine I have and also the only one that I have official
>> paperwork on stating it could be exported.
>>
>> I believe Harry had to pay something at the border as well when he went
>> to pick up the engines and bring them back to his place.
>>
>> Oz may work differently as officials there may not be use to making
>> supplemental income as part of their job.
>>
>> George
>>
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