Norman hamilton biography

How Hamilton Brought Porsche to Australia

Porsche Australia & New Zealand – 70 Years of Porsche in Australia: The amazing true story of how Norman Hamilton made Australia the first right-hand drive market for Porsche in the world.

   

Most Porsche enthusiasts have their own special memory of how they were first smitten by the marque.

For Melbourne pump distributor, Norman McKinnon Hamilton, his Porsche ‘moment’ came at the age of 41 in the early summer of 1951 on one of the 36 switchback corners of Austria’s famed Grossglockner Pass.

On his way from Austria to Switzerland to investigate the latest in pump technology for Australia’s nation-building Snowy Hydro project, his cumbersome rented Oldsmobile 88 was ‘rounded up’ by a low-slung silver sports car.

In a village further up the valley, he came upon noted German racing driver and Porsche tester, Richard von Frankenberg, at an inn, with his silver steed still ‘pinging’&nb

Dr Norman Hamilton: A 'critical friend' with a vision for a shared land

ONE does not have to be a close observer of matters ecclesiastical and theological to appreciate that the archives are not exactly bulging with examples of personal correspondence from a Pope to an Ulster Presbyterian clergyman.

So it says much for the esteem in which the Rev Dr Norman Hamilton is held that Pope Francis has taken the time to thank him for his "thoughtful observations" on the encyclical Fratelli Tutti, as published in the Faith matters pages of the Irish News last October.

It is undoubtedly a highly unusual development. Yet it also feels entirely fitting; not only is it in keeping with the spirit of Fratelli Tutti itself, a document intended to foster a spirit of fraternity and cooperation that can feel elusive in this age, but also because both Pope Francis and Dr Hamilton have made reaching out beyond traditional boundaries hallmarks of their respective ministries.

That those vocations have overlapped - in Dr Hamilton's article and the Pope's personal response - is nonetheless remarkable.

Norman Hamilton

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Norman Hamilton was born in San Ġiljan on 28 April, 1941. He was educated at St Aloysius College. In 1961 he became the first and only Maltese disc-jockey with the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS).

In 1964 Norman Hamilton he was employed as a programme producer and presenter with Central Office of Information in London.

In middle sixties Norman was also a singer and he used the named of Clive Waters. Between 1967 and 1973 he was the originator and presenter of the first-ever live breakfast show on Rediffusion and Radju Malta.

Norman was placed thir

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