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 ENDED MY LIFE AS A FARMER.  LATER MARRIED AND HAVE THREE 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--

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

SEVEN YEARS MARKETING WHOLE MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES.

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

SPENT MANY YEARS SELLING A HUGE RANGE OF MACHINERY. 

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

APART FROM A JESUIT COLLEGE EDUCATION ADVANTAGE, MY OTHER TEACHER WAS MY FATHER--WHO 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.