Running time
45 sec
Date made
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
The speedo, yes, the speedo. What would they do? They promised if you were down so many centimetres a day, which was normal for a reasonably fit man but for a man that's sick... And that's what happened. You see, these blokes would put their number down, that amount of centimetres down for the day. They'd go home early, they could go home, and they'd get a little bit of [rest] or they'd get two or three cigarettes. In those days, that was a fortune sort of thing. But not realising what was happening to the other poor blokes who had to stay there three or four hours longer to try to reach that same, and that's what they used to do.
