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1962 Priestman Cub Luffing Shovel Class: Others, Construction & Engineering vehicle — Model origin: 
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◊ 2017-07-09 01:06 |
I know this one!![[Image: 16-29priestmanbcorgi.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/16-29priestmanbcorgi.jpg) Excellent robust shovel - shifted several thousand tons of stuff in a long career in my bedroom and stood up well to being used in the sandpit. Hull docks - home of the Priestman factory - ship is the "Baltic Jet" so maybe going to somewhere Baltic. |
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◊ 2017-07-14 22:45 |
The Baltic Jet was built in Germany in 1959 and owned by the United Baltic Corporation of London. Their main routes after WWII appear to have been to Finland and Poland. The Jet was sold and renamed in 1979 and served until 1984 when she was scrapped in India. http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1038876 |
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◊ 2017-07-14 22:47 |
I don't think Poland was a travel option after WWII (because of the communism) -- Last edit: 2017-07-14 22:50:25 |
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◊ 2017-07-15 01:25 |
The source I linked specifically says the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) were no longer serviced after WWII, but Poland was. That's all I know. |
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◊ 2017-07-15 14:57 |
Let's don't exaggerate that the Eastern Block was so isolated that didn't have tourists from the Western Block or that there wasn't trade exchange thorugh the "iron curtain" (it was cargo ship by what I see). |
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◊ 2017-07-15 15:09 |
I also forgot that today, people go to countries such as Dubai, Saudi Arabia and of course North Korea like ingo.  |
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◊ 2017-07-15 16:19 |
The ship is a grain carrier and Poland being one of the largest producers of wheat in Europe (geographically as opposed to what was then the EEC) |
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◊ 2017-07-16 00:39 |
![[Image: 16-29priestmanc.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/16-29priestmanc.jpg) |
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◊ 2017-07-16 09:51 |
Communist Poland bought quite a lot of British excavators and cranes up to the demise of British Manufacturing in the 1980's because the Russian stuff was rubbish. Believe JCB is doing well in former Eastern Bloc though. -- Last edit: 2017-07-16 09:54:31 |
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◊ 2017-07-16 15:07 |
Nowadays Dubai is not only one of the largest air traffic hubs in the world, the tourism becomes large, too. Just have a look into the travel-company-leaflets in your postbox. Especially in the last years with the terrorism-attacks in Egypt, Tunisia the Dubai-tourism is heavily increasing, in the last 1 1/2 year the several incidents in Turkey are annother reason. To Saudi-Arabia is actually no private tourism possible. |
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◊ 2017-07-16 15:14 |
Now this generation is died off, but from the late 60ies up to the 90ies there was a remarkable tourism to Poland, called "Heimweh-Tourismus". Of the over 8 mio Germans, which fled were dispelled in 1945-1947 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_eastern_territories_of_Germany several came back a tourists to the the places of their childhood. |
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◊ 2017-07-16 18:18 |
Generally many machines, components (and licences for their production in Poland) have been bought in those times in GB. Similar with computers. At the end of 70s UK still had positive balance in trade with Poland. |
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