Australia - Toowoomba Store

Neil's Parts - Australia's Largest New, Used and Rebuilt Tractor, Header, Cotton Picker and Implement Parts Specialists!

Greetings from "the land down under" - rainy Australia!  That's correct rainy!  It has rained every day at some point during the day which is awesome for a country with severe drought conditions!  The trip down was uneventful which is just the way I like it.  The flight from Los Angeles to Brisbane was only 13 and 1/2 hours!  The total trip from the time we left our homes in Minnesota until we arrived in Toowoomba was almost 30 hours!    We've been here since Friday but things are "crazy" and I just haven't had a chance to collect my thoughts to blog! 

Neil's Parts of Toowoomba yard is shown in the picture to the left.  They are located in the state of Queensland about two hours from Brisbane!  The store is just down the road from our Australia corporate headquarters, where we are located for ten days!  It is the largest yard of the four, located on machinery road!  It's very well organized.  Tim Allan the manager made us breakfast at the yard on Monday morning.  It was great, I think he learned how to cook from his lovely wife who is a professional chef!

This is John Walk a parts specialist at the Toowoomba store.  John has been selling parts since March of this year and has been a great addition to the team.  He also plays rugby with some of the guys from the yard.  I've seen his legs rugby short and he should wear pants with those bird legs.  In all seriousness, he can get you the part you need if your tractor or combine ("header" as they call it in Australia) is broke down. 

Meet Craig Tebbutt - parts specialist Toowoomba.  Craig has been on the team at Toowoomba since September 2000.  This is Craig's second go round with the company.  You can count on Craig to be there everyday to provide you the parts that you need!  Craig has an easy going nature, nothing is too much trouble for him per his old manager Jason Atkins.  If you look real close at the photo you will see a "dash" of a figure rushing past Craig.  This is Nikolas Fitzgerald known "Nick Fitz".   He works so fast you can't even catch him on the digital camera.  I think his new nickname should be "Dash"!  Well maybe he doesn't work that fast but I thought the picture was really neat!

Sharon Greenbury is the new bookkeeper at the Toowoomba branch.  She was just hired to handle the bookkeeping duties that are changing because of our new system integration with the United States.  That's the primary reason for our trip.  Neil's Parts will be running on our platform January 1st - one world - one company - one team!

There are many more valued employees at the Toowoomba store that we didn't have time to get pictures of.  That's doesn't mean we think any less of them, we just ran out of time.  More tomorrow on the corporate office staff.  That's all for today from the land down under!

Cheers,

Mike Winter 

Comments

[Michael Libbie]

Mike: How cool...to be there. Must be exciting. Long ago my father, may he rest in peace, had an offer from Ford to head to that country. He turned it down...wonder what might have happened if he had gone? Enjoy your trip!! See you soon.

M