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

[David Nicolson]

Hi Peter, in my opinion i dont think too many engines will end up in the 
scrap heap as the two local srapies here drag any of that sort of stuff out 
of the heaps.All i have been able to find out is they are going to someone 
else ( wether they be dealers or collectors i dont know) Either way they are 
being saved.As for the farmers around most of them go to clearing sales so 
they would have seen the prices old engines bring which is better than scrap 
prices. I'm not overly worried and this is my opinion.   David.

>From: "peter ogborne" <jopeter at omninet.net.au>
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>To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>Subject: Re: [SEL] Distasterous news for the historical 
>machinerymovementinAustralia!!!
>Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 20:34:14 +0800
>
>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>
>To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 12:49 AM
>Subject: RE: [SEL] Distasterous news for the historical machinery 
>movementinAustralia!!!
>
>
>>
>>>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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