My name is Lance Hill and I represent 'Advance Australia' because my rotary clothes
hoist, for drying washing, is famous throughout Australian backyards. My 'Hills Hoist'
clothesline began being mass-produced in 1948. It became so well known that the 'Hills'
name became synonymous with the type of hoist that has a handle on its central pole which
turns to lower and raise the washing lines. To be fair, however, my hoist was not the
first of its kind. Early in the twentieth-century (around 1912), an inventor in Geelong,
called Gilbert Toyne, designed a rotary clothes hoist. By the early 1920s, Toyne's
'All-Metal Rotary Clothes Hoist' was being manufactured and advertised in Australia -
that's about 25 years before I made my first 'Hills Hoist'.
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FOR SCENE: [Title: 'Gil's Hoist'] The year is 1948. Show Gilbert Toyne in Geelong reacting
to the news that the Hills Hoist has begun to be mass produced.
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