We work in an industry in which change is the only constant.
There was, I am sure, a board meeting at the Hymac headquarters in the 1980s during which the company’s directors congratulated themselves on another year of success and looked ahead to more of the same. By 1993, Hymac had gone the way of the dodo.
There was likely a time when manufacturers of motor scrapers could see no end in sight to their global domination of the muckshifting space. Aside from a recent semi-resurgence, scrapers are now about as current as flared trousers and glam rock.
In much the same way, I am sure that diesel engine manufacturers the world over were projecting production and profits that stretched to the horizon and beyond. The sun hasn’t yet set on diesel engine manufacture and supply; but it’s certainly setting. We are in the dusk of diesel.
All of which goes to prove that the passage of time has a nasty habit of making preconceptions look foolish.
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