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Re: Re: Was there an Oliver equivalent to the Cockshutt 540?
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Posted by Alberta Mike on December 14, 2001 at 05:47:04 from (209.47.89.118):
In Reply to: Re: Was there an Oliver equivalent to the Cockshutt 540? posted by Clem on December 13, 2001 at 20:22:11:
All of those were sent to Afghanistan I'm afraid, and if there are any left here in Western Canada I'd be surprised. Off topic, but that same outfit made beer too, but because beer advertising wasn't allowed here in Alberta at the time, they made soft-drinks and bottled it in the beer bottles. Then they advertised the pop and the bottles showed up in the advertising billboards, magazines, etc. My dad loved their beer and the pop was out-of-this-world. Teachers always wondered why I was dozing off in highschool classes after lunch. You see my mother always put a bottle of pop in there with my egg sandwiches. And I do remember the old man complaining that the beer was losing it's punch.
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