Hi paul c and CyberJack,
I feel blessed that my careers counsellor Mr Broomhead arranged for me to spend a week in this factory I had no prior knowledge about, as I had expressed electrical engineering as a possible career goal.
To be honest, even in mid 1989, I was surprised to see this relatively unknown home grown manufacturer, as I had never noticed any of their products in stores and I was used to the idea of international companies based off shore, being the dominant suppliers of our electrical items.
A lady from my local church in Eastwood even worked in the office there!
I think it's nice that Wernard made their own line of products instead of being merely a component supplier in the background, even though I just never knew about them!
I could somehow sense that it wasn't going to last in the long term as I was just so accustomed to the idea that we relied on the big players from overseas. These guys just didn't have the scale to keep up and I was right. Gough Whitlam got his way in the end.
Thanks for digging up those pics and info CyberJack
