Tasmanian Car Museum’s Rare Display of Vintage & Classic Alfa Romeos

by John Elliott on January 25th, 2012 No Comments

The management of the National Automobile Museum of Tasmania (NAMT) pulled off a coup last year by reaching agreement with Neville Crichton, who owns the only surviving and running 1921 Alfa Romeo G1, to ship his prized vintage Alfa to Tasmania to enable the Alfa G1 to anchor the NAMT’s special “Bella Alfa Romeo” display at their Launceston premises.

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John & Tom Elliott Launch Their 2012 Father & Son Show

by John Elliott on January 24th, 2012 No Comments

To kick start their popular Father and Son website show for 2012, John sets the scene with an opening solo presentation and then is joined by Tom in a second recording.

Don’t forget to listen to their top rating Father & Son Show on 3AW every Sunday at 12 noon.

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Alan Stokes Cracks Holden’s 63 Year Model Code Mystery

by John Elliott on January 20th, 2012 No Comments

Being a past proud owner of a second hand EH Holden (1963 model) I was impressed with Alan Stokes last Saturday’s article in the Financial Review, under the heading ”Your’e not taking the Holden” where, using his barbed wit and sense of humour, he revealed in layman’s language, the rationale used by General Motors Holden in selecting the two letter model codes for their new Holden releases. He broke the Generals Code!

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Insight Into Banks & Councils Differing House Valuation Techniques

by John Elliott on January 19th, 2012 1 Comment

At a time when an increasing amount of house owners with mortgages are assessing sale or refinancing options against a backdrop of economic uncertainty and falling values,you will see from the following photographic analysis the challenges ahead in arriving at a fair value for your real estate.

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John Elliott’s Critical “Iron Lady” Film Review

by John Elliott on January 18th, 2012 No Comments

I am not a movie buff. The only film I saw last year, The Kings Speech which I thought was particularity good. This year I have been to see the Iron Lady. I knew Margaret Thatcher very well during her prime ministership as I was running the Courage Brewery in the UK whilst also being Federal President of the Liberal Party in Australia.

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Support Haluel Herjok’s Fund Raising For South Sudan Primary School

by John Elliott on January 13th, 2012 No Comments

Haluel Herjok immigrated to Australia with her young family form South Sudan where she was working with the United Nations as a Women’s Rights Activist. Since she moved to Melbourne she gained a Diploma of Community Welfare Work at TAFE  and following her visit in 2010 to her home village in Sudan, she initiated with the support of local village women and children, a plan to build a primary school for girls in her village.

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Cockfosters Is Not A Paul Hogan Invention

by John Elliott on January 11th, 2012 No Comments

What a lot of viewers perhaps didn’t appreciate when we posted recently the Paul Hogan Fosters UK advertisement on Cockfosters that Cockfosters is a town on London’s famous underground train system as shown on the video below.

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Dyson Vacuum Cleaners Enter Personal Weight Reduction Market

by John Elliott on January 10th, 2012 No Comments

Dyson vacuum cleaners are considered to be cutting edge design technology and their creative marketing skills have seen them move into the large and expanding personal weight reduction sector (with a little help from digital enhancement and an astute advertising agency) as seen in this video.

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Season Greetings From John Elliott

by John Elliott on December 24th, 2011 1 Comment

John Elliott and his production team would like to wish you all Seasons Greetings and best wishes for the New Year!

Victorian Jaguar Club Celebrates E-Type’s 50th Anniversary (1961-2011)

by John Elliott on December 23rd, 2011 No Comments

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Classic Jaguar E-Type’s first release in 1961, the Victorian Jaguar Car Club recently held a special public display of vintage and classic Jaguar cars at Wesley College’s Waverly sports arena.

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John Elliott Interviews Michael Feeney, The XLANT Editor In Chief

by John Elliott on December 22nd, 2011 No Comments

To end the year on an Elders IXL/Fosters note, John interviews the ex Pommie DJ, Mike Feeney who immigrated to Australia in the 1970s. He was  appointed to the Elders Strategy Team in the early 1980s and was sent to Canada within days of his appointment to oversee the Carling O’Keefe brewery acquisition. He also he spent 6 months in New Zealand in 1988 following the New Zealand Forests Products takeover by Elders Resources.

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Broo’s Kent Grogan Featured In Australian Financial Review

by John Elliott on December 21st, 2011 No Comments

I was pleased to see Kent Grogan continuing his 100% Australian ownership campaign against the ASX in a combined interview and article by Jason Clout in last weekends Financial Review. If you read the article you would see how tall Kent is when standing against 6 slabs high of Broo.

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