You know I am EXTREMELY jealous of you Europeans who can do a day's trip to take in the old battlefields and hunt for relics but there ( was ) a time when we here in Oz could find similar treasures to the scrapyards of the continent.
Back in 1990 I did a relic hunting trip down to the border of NSW and Victoria where I knew of several old scrapyards that word about town said, were being "tidied" up. Urban spread had dictated the value of the land was worth more than the value of the scrap!!
The first was Plum & Crichton Scrap-metal Merchants in the town of Albury / Wodonga - well known for having HEAPS of WW2 allied armour as well as Korean and Vietnam surplus.
Sadly, I missed it by a few weeks as the yard was almost cleared out! grrr....
( sorry but I didn't have a digital camera in those days )
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