CHAPTER 38 

WHAT A RANGE.

EXPERIENCE TELLS.

JIM TRAVERS-- THE AUTHOR OF THIS WEBSITE STARTED AS A FARMER DAIRY /POTATOES / POULTRY--WON THREE --YEARLY STATE GOVERNMENT COMPETITIONS AGAINST 47 POULTRY FARMERS AS HIGHEST EGG PRODUCER PER BIRD IN SA.

SURVIVED A HEAD ON ROAD COLLISION WITH 12 BROKEN BONES ON ONE SIDE, THE OTHER PARTY DRIVING ON A ONE WAY ROAD OPPOSITE TO THE CORRECT DIRECTION AROUND A CORNER ON BRADMAN DRIVE NEAR THE ADELAIDE AIRPORT,SURVIVED BUT ENDED MY LIFE AS A FARMER.  LATER MARRIED CHRISTINE AND HAVE THREE CHILDREN PLUS FOUR GRAND CHILDREN.

BECAME WAREHOUSE MANAGER FOR FOUR STATES.--RAN A BUSINESS AND PRODUCED 13,500 COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATION COMPRESSORS [FULLY ACCESSIBLE SEALED-ROTOSEALED AND BELT DRIVEN ] SYSTEMS FROM PIG IRON AND SHEET METAL. BUILT OVER 2000 COLDROOM REFRIGERATOR AND FREEZER PACKAGE UNITS FOR THE MINING INDUSTRY.

PRODUCED FLAKE ICEMAKERS,SOFT SERVER ICECREAM MACHINES AND WINE CHILLERS--

BECAME AN APPROVED EMPLOYEE FOR COMMONWEALTH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANTS BOARD AND RECEIVED [AT CURRENT VALUE] OVER $3 MILLION FOR REFRIGERATION DESIGN PRODUCTS.--

SPENT SEVEN YEARS MARKETING WHOLE MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

WROTE INTERNATIONAL TREATISE ON APPRAISING GOODWILL IN MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES.                                                    BECAME THE LARGEST SINGLE CONTRIBUTOR TO THE MORTLOCK LIBRARY IN SA SUPPLYING HISTORIES AND RECORDS OF OVER 80 MAJOR MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

 HAVE SPENT MANY YEARS SELLING A HUGE RANGE OF MACHINERY. 

PRODUCED MANY ARTICLES AGAINST THE DESTRUCTION OF AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY AND  WATCHED AUSTRALIA FALLING FROM MINOR DEBT TO NOW OWING ALMOST THREE TRILLION DOLLARS AND LOSING NINETY PERCENT OF OUR INDUSTRIES.

APART FROM A JESUIT COLLEGE EDUCATION ADVANTAGE UNDER HEADMASTERS OF FATHER PERROT SJ. AND FATHER BARDEN SJ.       MY OTHER TEACHER WAS MY FATHER, AMBROSE TRAVERS

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AMBROSE TRAVERS

TOPPED ENGLISH IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA AT JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL THEN TOPPED THE STATE IN ALL SUBJECTS THE FOLLOWING YEAR.                                                                                                         AT THE AGE OF NINETEEN FINISHED HIS DEGREE IN ACCOUNTING, THE YOUNGEST EVER  AT THE ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY.                             MANAGED A PRIVATE COMPANY THAT GREW AND EMPLOYED UP TO  750 PEOPLE.  AND DURING WW II  SUBCONTRACTED AN ADDITIONAL 1650 PEOPLE.                                                                                  PRODUCED  FROM AN ORIGINAL 285 POUNDS CAPITAL IN 27 YEARS TO A PROFIT OF OVER 250.000 POUNDS  IN 1954, IE OVER 800 TIMES ORIGINAL PAID UP CAPITAL.                                                                    A LARGE SUPPORTER OF ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE AS PRESIDENT OF THE FATHER'S ASSOCIATION FOR ITS FIRST NINE YEARS FROM 1951 AND WAS INVITED BY SISTER DEIDRE JORDAN TO ESTABLISH AND BE PRESIDENT OF THE ST ALOYSIUS COLLEGE FATHER'S ASSOCIATION  DURING THE SAME TIME. HE WAS VERY MUCH INVOLVED IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BOTH ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE AT ATHELSTONE AND MERCEDES COLLEGE AT SPRINGFIELD.                                             FOR TWENTY YEARS EVERY EMPLOYEE PLUS NUMEROUS CHARITIES RECEIVED HAMS AND TURKEYS AT CHRISTMAS AND EASTER FROM THE COMPANY.