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Driver: Image by David Prater

This image, by Cordite editor David Prater, shows the interior of the Austin Car manufacturing plant on Dudley Street, West Melbourne. The building is now used variously as a car park, second hand furniture warehouse, architects' offices (Six Degrees) and, downstairs, an artist's living space. Read about the 109A project, conceived by Shannon Bufton, who writes: "The Ruskin Motor company had also used the building to manufacture body parts. Later on in its life it was used by the Commonwealth Department [of Administrative Services] to maintain its fleet of cars." The car pictured may or may not be one of these sad old beasts.

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