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| February 01, 2004 | Bowden, Jim | COPYRIGHT 2004 Australian Map Circle. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Like many others, I wandered accidentally into the map trade. In September 1950, I was looking to move from the work I was in at the time, and a friend who was in the sales team at Universal Business Directories told me the Company needed someone for eight weeks to prepare short histories of towns for the forthcoming new Country edition of their classified trade directories.

UBD had commenced operations in New Zealand about 1930, and spread to Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth just before World War 2, and Sydney and Melbourne in 1948. So, I spent the 8 weeks on that project, and coincidentally, at the end of the period the whole sales team (of seven), including my ...

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