After the Motor Show it was donated to Victorian Police Training Centre and has been there since being used as an educational tool.

With thanks to the Victorian Police Training it was donated to the Ford Discovery Centre in December and is now on show for all to see.

Since then our team of dedicated volunteers has been detailing the vehicle and making the display interactive for our safe musuem experience.

We have placed it on show in our Decade display while we wait to permanantly move the exhibit upstairs.

You just do not get to see this sort of work anymore except for here.

Come in now and see this new interactive and much more!

Many thanks to all those involved, we are very proud of this new exhibit.

A short video will be uploaded to our new facebook page shortly.

You are invited to join the Ford Discovery Centre during the festive season

Enjoy the wide range of other activities in the Centre during School Holidays. under the guidance of parent, children can play and learn with a wide range of self guided activities.

We have competitions, interactive displays, and wooden billy car kits.

Build a car; using your imagination what design can you come up with? Build it out of recycled materials, become part of the museum and add your design to our community mural, or take it home. Enjoy our new activity and become a Ford Expert and take home your own certificate.

These activities and much more to see and explore.

Come along and join in the fun!

Watch this space over coming week for more information though we would look forward to seeing you soon to experience the history of Ford.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

In Store Promotion August/September 2011

WIN A MODEL FORD GARAGE

1. Promotion runs from 1st August 2011 to 30th September 2011.

2. One entry is received for every $50 spent in The Ford Discovery Gift Shop in one single transaction. Eg $50.00 = 1 entry, $200.00 = 4 entries.

3. Winner will be drawn on Monday 3rd October 2011 at The Ford Discovery Centre, 12 Gheringhap Street, Geelong.

4. Winner will be notified by email & phone.

5. The winners first initial, surname & state will be posted on our website on the 5th October.

6. Prize includes 1 x Scale Model Ford Garage, RRP $49.95 plus registered delivery within Australia.

7. We may use your details to contact you with information on further promotions & newsletters.

8. If you wish not to be contacted please tick the box on the entry form.

9. Not valid for on-line purchases.

10. Prize is not exchangeable for cash.

Wile the  small English Ford’s heading back the first weekend of September we thank the club for the display and look forward to future display opportunities.

Open 6 days a week 10am – 5pm Wednesday to Monday

Thursday July 28^th 2011

Book now! Limited spaces are available.

• See science and technology experiences that lift you to new levels of performance
• Explore technology that is reaching deeper into our everyday lives
• Examine how designs that move are enriching our experiences in so many ways

Presentations by leading CSIRO researchers and industry experts

Your Visit will involve a choice of two tours in either Arts and Entertainment or Sports and Rehabilitation.

Each tour will take one and half hours. Ideal for VELS level 5-6 and VCE.

Demonstrations and talks will take you on a behind the scene look at designs that move.

Arts and Entertainment

Three demonstrations of playful explorations of technology to encourage movement including an airguitar, bodily extensions, and an interactive game

Sports and Rehabilitation

Three demonstrations of how to use technology to encourage movement to acquire skills including wearable technology, throwing, kicking and rowing, human powered vehicles

Further information is on each tour is found in links with descriptive downloadable files.

Each tour will allow time to explore the technology behind the Ford Motor Company of Australia and interact with many exhibits on show.

Contact our Program Coordinator

Bryan Knowles

ph: 03 5227 8709

fdcinfo@deakin.edu.au

Cost $6.00 per student Teachers are free at ratio 1:10

This event is part of 2011 State of Design Festival exploring Design that Moves, one of the largest most innovative design event in Australia and the heart of design thinking and design activity.

School Flyer- a one page summary of this unique opportunity

Complete information sheets – will provide all tour information on one document

On  loan from Ambulance Historical Society Victoria which was  formed in 1986 and is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of Victorian ambulance vehicles, equipment and memorabilia and is funded and supported by Ambulance Victoria.

1957 Ford Mainline

Ford Australia began producing the Mainline utility in 1952 until 1958 when it ceased production.  The Mainline was a modification of the American standard low priced V8 Customline sedan and came in only one version –the basic model.

This vehicle was first used by snowy mountain Hydro Electric Authority as an ambulance and was stationed at Adamnaby.

The Ambulance was later transferred for use by the North Eastern Regional Ambulance Service in 1977

1968 Ford Fairlane

The Ford Fairlane Ambulance was introduced into the Victorian Ambulance Service from 1959

Coach Builder ( F.L Chivers & Co ) built these rare ZA Fairlane Ambulances that were used around Australia in the late 1960′s.

Built for the Victorian Civil Ambulance Service the Fairlane was initially used in the metropolitan area of Melbourne. It later served the rural areas of Victoria and is typical of vehicles of that era used throughout the region

The Ambulance Historical Society Victoria is located at 3 Merchant Aveue, near Northgate Drive, Thomastown.

Visit their website http://www.paramedic-community.com/ahsv/

John Goss

Born and raised in Hobart, Tasmania, Goss began racing in his home state in Holden FJ’s and Ford Customlines. He then built his own sports car, the Tornado Ford, which he took to the mainland with some success, scoring points in the Australian Sports Car Championship in both 1969 and 1970. He also raced Ford Falcon GTHOs in production car racing from 1969 and stayed loyal to Ford for much of his career.

Goss debuted at the Bathurst 500 in 1969 driving a McLeod Ford (with its distinctive yellow/black chequer windscreen strip) sponsored Ford Falcon GTHO, but Goss’s co-driver Dennis Cribbin crashed the Falcon at Forrest Elbow. In 1970 John Goss posted the fastest lap during the Bathurst 500 in his Falcon. The following year Goss won two rounds of the Toby Lee Series at Oran Park against such opposition as Colin Bond and Fred Gibson.

Goss won the 1972 South Pacific Touring Car Series and the 1972 Sandown 250 endurance race, both in Series Production Ford Falcon GTHOs. He also put his Falcon on the front row of the grid at the Bathurst 500, qualifying second fastest.

With the Series Production class being replaced by the new Group C Touring Car class in 1973, Goss was the first driver to develop and race the new Ford Falcon XA GT Hardtop. Unlike Series Production, the new Group C rules allowed considerable modifications. Goss obtained sponsorship from Shell and Max McLeod, a prominent Ford dealer in Rockdale, New South Wales – known for his “Horn cars” – as well as obtaining factory assistance from Ford Australia, who provided Goss with purpose-built XA racing chassis. Goss and Kevin Bartlett teamed up for the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 at Bathurst and qualified on pole position, but failed to finish despite leading for much of the race.

John Goss’s reproduction of the 1974 Bathurst winner

In 1974, the pair returned to Bathurst in the same car – repainted from yellow to blue after losing Shell as their major sponsor – and proved to have the reliability needed to last through a race marred by driving rain, finishing first. To celebrate the victory, Ford Australia released a limited edition XB Falcon Hardtop in 1975 called the John Goss Special. Actual production numbers of these cars were never released by Ford, but estimates range anywhere between 260 and 800 – they are now considered collectible

Enquiries are welcomed
Phone +61 3 5227 8700 or email fdcops@deakin.edu.au