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| Contents | Next Our initial forays into Australia, the States and UK were very positive. We had a revolutionary product and people liked us. They also liked the fact that — even though we came from the other side of the world — we were going to do business “as if we ... Read more
Previous | Contents | October 2001 It used to be the Austro-Hungarians we had to thank for keeping the Ottomans out of Europe but for now it’s the EU, while they consider Turkey’s application to join. For such a big shift — from Christian society to Muslim, from Europe to Asia — the ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next October 2021. We only had 2-3 days to spend with Heather’s relatives in the UK on this trip. I was a bit worried about meeting Uncle Bert, the BOAC pilot, again. He definitely hadn’t drunk me under his sister-in-law’s table when he came to New Zealand, but apparently I ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next October 2021. It’s not often that your flight plans align with a world-shaking geopolitical event, but we managed it in September 2001. Our plan — after joining the Queensberry contingent at the WPPI show in Las Vegas — was to host a round of seminars in Canada, England and ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next March 2001. This was Queensberry’s first WPPI trade show in Las Vegas. ~Ian Well, the Trade Show is over and we’re back in the LAX Departure Lounge. It feels good to relax. The show was a non-stop assault. We’d been pretty busy even before we left home, what with ... Read more