flipper wrote:

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:02:55 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


flipper wrote:

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:37:19 -0500, Phil Hobbs
wrote:

flipper wrote:
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Could be, I suppose, but WWII surplus seems a lot more likely as the
country was darn near swimming in the stuff there for a while.

There sure was a lot of it. An uncle of mine built a logging equipment
business by converting WWII surplus half tracks into cherry pickers and
log haulers.

Sounds like a darn good idea.

Remember all those ads claiming you could get a surplus 'jeep in
crate' for 50 bucks?


They just didn't tell you that you had to buy by the thousands, and
pay shipping from wherever they were stored in some foreign country.

That might actually have been a better deal than what it really was.


Some people made a killing by buying the surplus right off the
returning warships, then sending it by train to their warehouses where
their workers cleaned up or stripped the equipment. Other equipment was
sold wherever it sat, and had to be shipped at the buyer's expense.
Some of the early surplus dealers made millions every year buying W.W.II
surplus. Others bought surplus parts and either sold kits or used it to
lower manufacturing costs for their products.


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