| Author | Message | ||
     Lawrence Heasman Frequent User Username: lheasman Post Number: 73 Registered: 5-2008 |
I'm moving to Tasmania in the new year and was wondering if there are any recommendations for mechanics in the Hobart area. | ||
| Maxwell Heazlewood Experienced User Username: tasbent Post Number: 40 Registered: 9-2017 |
Hello Lawrence, I will ask around and see with what I come up with. I know there is a good service place in Launceston but that's 2 hrs north of Hobart....I'll see what I can come up with and get back to you ;o)) | ||
| Lawrence Heasman Frequent User Username: lheasman Post Number: 74 Registered: 5-2008 |
Thanks Maxwell. Much appreciated. | ||
| Maxwell Heazlewood Experienced User Username: tasbent Post Number: 49 Registered: 9-2017 |
Lawrence, I have sent you a private msg regards a few details that you may find useful in your new adventure ;o) | ||
| Bill Coburn Moderator Username: bill_coburn Post Number: 1597 Registered: 4-2003 |
Lawrence, there was an embryonic group starting up in the Isle some years back but they seem to have died. I'll check the register! | ||
| Maxwell Heazlewood Frequent User Username: tasbent Post Number: 52 Registered: 9-2017 |
Bill, the RROC in Tasmania is amalgamated with Victoria because of the small numbers. | ||
| Bill Coburn Moderator Username: bill_coburn Post Number: 1598 Registered: 4-2003 |
Thanks Max, I did not know that. I grew up in Tas! | ||
| Maxwell Heazlewood Frequent User Username: tasbent Post Number: 57 Registered: 9-2017 |
Which end of the Island Bill? | ||
| Bill Coburn Moderator Username: bill_coburn Post Number: 1599 Registered: 4-2003 |
Good old Hobart. | ||
| Maxwell Heazlewood Frequent User Username: tasbent Post Number: 62 Registered: 9-2017 |
Lawrence....are you still with us? Did you get my msg? | ||
| Maxwell Heazlewood Frequent User Username: tasbent Post Number: 63 Registered: 9-2017 |
Bill....you realise they close the gate at Oatlands after five  | ||
| Lawrence Heasman Frequent User Username: lheasman Post Number: 75 Registered: 5-2008 |
Hi there gents, Yes, thank you so much for the information and the introduction. I'll be sure to make contact with him. Much appreciated. | ||
| Maxwell Heazlewood Frequent User Username: tasbent Post Number: 65 Registered: 9-2017 |
Lawrence....good to hear you're still with us. Let me know how you get on when it all happens. | ||
| Lawrence Heasman Frequent User Username: lheasman Post Number: 77 Registered: 5-2008 |
Will do for sure!! | ||
| Bill Coburn Moderator Username: bill_coburn Post Number: 1600 Registered: 4-2003 |
Max/ I grew up in Hobart and left when I was thirty to come to Canberra.. The Oatlands advice I'm sorry escapes me except I seem to remember the Mason-Dickson line. I built a house in Howrah and was there for the building of the elevated Derwent River Bridge and remembered well its destruction some years later. I remember the fires that demolished half of South Hobart. Since I have just passed the 80 mark it's a wonder I remember anything!! | ||
| Maxwell Heazlewood Frequent User Username: tasbent Post Number: 68 Registered: 9-2017 |
Hahahaaa....the old North-South rivalry still exists The 'Mason-Dixon Line' is at the 42nd parallel....hence the oatlands gates close at five joke. My wife and I were on our honeymoon during the 1975 bidge disaster....an event that completely changed Hobart and led to the building of the second bridge crossing up river with the Bowen bridge. I used to quite enjoy crossing the old 'Floating Bridge'...a very clever design by the same bloke who was head engineer for the HEC....now THAT'S stretching the old grey cells!  |
