chrisp
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A heap of businesses relied on the automotive industry, and supply of their Stuff went to places like CCP Land when the industry was let go.
My wife was planning our landscaping when we bought a house circa 2014 and had planned on getting some faux sleepers made of a pulp that was 90% recycled plastic (but of recycled wood chucked in for good measure) … by 2015 when we wanted to buy them, the company had shut down, as a reasonable proportion of it relied on the car industry … and there was no similar equivalent from an Aussie supplier.
For some reason your post had me recalling something I heard about 15 years ago.
I was working in research and I recall one of the business development managers telling me about the Australian automotive industry, and that it was teetering on the brink of collapse (even though it wasn’t generally apparent that that time). It wasn’t so much about the three manufacturers who were operating at the time, but the myriad of small manufacturers who were supplying these three manufacturers. The thing I recall was that it was predicted that once one of the three major car manufacturers folded, the other two would soon follow. The issue was that the volume of parts required would put those smaller parts manufacturers below a critical supply volume and that this would lead to the other two manufacturers folding. I must admit that I didn’t fully understand the ins-and-outs of this prediction at the time, but it certainly played out exactly as predicted (about a decade before it happened).
It seems that the country is now way below a critical mass in parts manufacturing, so it‘s probably going to be hard to have someone else step in and fill a void (where even the incumbent found it difficult to survive).
Maybe we - the Just Commodores community - can set up a not-for-profit way of keeping our cars alive?