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13-03-2022, 05:28 PM | #1 | ||
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Found this video published 3rd of March 2022 -
I'm not sure how they guy was allowed in to do that, I guess he was trespassing in the name of video content. Either way, it's so sad seeing it like that.
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13-03-2022, 05:48 PM | #2 | ||
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Thats super kool.
Was hoping to see a left over turbo engine sitting there. Wonder if it has any signage there still. Might be going to Geelong AFD and would love some pictures.
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13-03-2022, 06:21 PM | #3 | ||
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Apart from a few bits of tech, that place looks like it was abandoned some time in the 1960's or 70's.
Interesting comment from guy who supposedly worked there, that Ford started progressively shutting it down from 2010, 3 years before the official announcement. |
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13-03-2022, 06:28 PM | #4 | |||
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13-03-2022, 07:20 PM | #6 | ||
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Well i am sure that is the last time someone sneaks in there! Expect all those those A4 folders to be collected tomorrow as well.
I cant believe he didn't pick up that phone at 4.46 and see if there was dial tone
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13-03-2022, 07:30 PM | #7 | ||
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Check out that GT 351 Falcon Image on the wall at 4.14...
The image below is F6 325.. Are these known sketches?
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13-03-2022, 08:28 PM | #8 | ||
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Judging by the voice, and words, of the cameraman he would'nt be old enough to know how to use a dial phone
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13-03-2022, 10:35 PM | #9 | ||
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I work for a Ford dealership and when we did training for the PX Ranger they loaded us on a bus one day and took us the the Geelong factory for a tour and I couldn't help thinking at the time that the place was well over due for some maintenance and a tidy up. The writing was on the wall and I didn't realise at the time. They also took us to You Yangs for a tour as well. Sort of a thank you for our services to the brand I guess, was great full for the privilege.
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13-03-2022, 11:05 PM | #10 | ||
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brother-inlaw was there a few years back to do some work on something. he mentioned that it looked like it be started up as there was still alot of 'stuff' still there making it look as tho everyone was takin a break. pretty sure there was a "Grand Sale" on facebook or some where with all the fixtures being sold off.
dunno why the vid says Abandoned Ford Factory Tour as it was never abandoned, it was sold off along with Broady to the one buyer. during the our little pandemic it was used as the one stop shop for your corona shot. been there twice for that. |
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13-03-2022, 11:13 PM | #11 | ||
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Wonder if it will turn into housing, its a HUGE location, right near a freeway in the northern suburbs of Melbourne
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14-03-2022, 01:20 AM | #12 | ||
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Never mind
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14-03-2022, 10:11 AM | #14 | ||||
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from what i read awhile back nothing was mentioned re housing ........ but things can change. from memory i believe "Industrial Estate" was mentioned?. plus if used for housing there would be A LOT of soil clean up needed. Quote:
and a few other items like lockers etc. |
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14-03-2022, 12:21 PM | #15 | ||
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I wouldn't be totally surprised if the odd car part is still sitting in there somewhere; under a floor, in a basement, or in a closed-off and forgotten area.
I understand the fascination with the old factory. I wouldn't mind being in there to have a look, to wander around, thinking of what used to take place there. |
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14-03-2022, 12:40 PM | #16 | |||
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14-03-2022, 03:38 PM | #17 | ||
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These are some pics I have screenshotted of the casting and stamping plants, taken in January 2022 -
These areas have been stripped bare. I think the idea of there being anything of interest or value left in those plants is pure fantasy. Anything of value to Ford would be long gone, the rest is scrap. So sad, how many people earned their living to bring up a family, paid for a house or car within those walls. The legacy lies in the cars that were made because of that plant, the cars we love and cherish.
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14-03-2022, 03:50 PM | #18 | |||
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pretty well what gtown will have done to it....... dunno when tho. |
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15-03-2022, 02:01 AM | #20 | ||
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I love this kind of urb-ex stuff, during I ended up watching a lot of the proper people on YT - amercans but they have gone to Japan, China, Asia and Europe. But lots of interesting USA stuff too mainly schools (some had a shooting range), mental asylums, hospitals or defunct theatres and them parks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvB6_NpuNOI most recent vid, I'm only about to watch it now, but you can get their homepage from that. E: another fav was from maybe ukraine 7 years ago or more, had Russian bases, their space shuttle and abandoned aircraft and ground force water planes to cross the black sea (ekranoplan?) Last edited by oldel; 15-03-2022 at 02:15 AM. |
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15-03-2022, 11:30 AM | #21 | ||
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So many memories in that place for me. 15 years I spent in that engine plant. Weird seeing the loading bays which used to be full of Barra's in stillages waiting to be loaded into the broady run trucks completely empty.
I wonder when this was filmed, because last I heard the engine plant had pretty much been stripped bare? And FYI, the storage room he goes into with the robot and the racks on both sides of the walls was the engine block storage area. The robot would pick up the machined blocks and place them on the underground conveyor that went across the aisle way to the assembly line on the other side. Last edited by Bossxr8; 15-03-2022 at 11:35 AM. |
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15-03-2022, 11:33 AM | #22 | |||
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Apparently they had plenty of demand for companies wanting to use sections of the plants for industrial use. I think this video must be outdated by a few years, cause i'm positive the site has been refurbished and handed over to the new owners. |
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15-03-2022, 03:28 PM | #24 | |||
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Like you, I think that video may have been filmed some time ago and I actually questioned it when I spotted the publish date for the video considering the pics I had seen of it stripped bare in January.
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15-03-2022, 03:57 PM | #25 | |||
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Yes, the video is a couple of years out of date, but only a few. The property wasn't sold until a few years ago. Around 2019 IIRC. The Facade is actually Heritage Listed, and as far as I know the whole thing is being refurbed as Industrial Space. |
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15-03-2022, 04:12 PM | #26 | ||
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This thread reminds me of the video Ford published showing the manufacturing cycle across their plants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t5MK2YcqLw I wish I could find the original high quality version, but even still, this low res version still gives me goosebumps as I imagine all the Falcon's I have owned trundling their way down that line.
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16-03-2022, 04:35 PM | #27 | |||
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I wish the council or some one would do something regarding the graffiti on the highway side of the building. Sad to see it like this.c |
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17-03-2022, 01:56 PM | #28 | ||||
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I think the video is most likely from around 2017/8. The blank signs out the front of the plant give it away, cause they have Fortek branding on them now, and have for at least 2-3 years maybe? Quote:
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17-03-2022, 02:40 PM | #30 | |||
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If I recall correctly a windmill manufacturer was set up there at one point, the giant blades were coming straight off the ships in pieces at the port and transferred the couple hundred meters up the road to the plant, where they were semi-assembled before being sent out to the windfarms out Rokewood way? |
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