NOW AND THEN ! Early 1972 I worked at COCKATOO ISLAND SHIPYARD in the Heavy Shop as a Heavy Machinist on this baby The Thomas Shanks Lathe built in 1914, in the old photo thats me at the front on the toolpost just after we set the 30 ton drop forged Rudderstock for a tanker, this was just before I moved to Byron Bay, and after doing 12 hour shifts here, I had enough ,and enough money to go north with wife and baby Kris.