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The Hill's Hoist Rotary Clothes Hoist was invented by Australian Lance Hill. Lance Hill was a motor mechanic and he made the first Hill's Hoist for his wife whose washing kept falling off the prop washing line. The year was 1945. The place was Adelaide, South Australia. His line was a single steel pole with metal ribs spreading out from the centre pole. Between the ribs he strung rustproof wire from which the clothes would hang. Lance Hill then invented a way of winding up the top part of the centre pole. The clothes could be raised high to dry in the wind. The line was so successful that soon all the Hill's neighbours wanted one too. Lance Hill was happy to build them. At first he built them in his backyard workshop. In 1946, Hill and his brother-in-law opened a factory making Hill's Rotary Clothes Hoist. Later the clothes hoists became known as Hill's Hoists and the clotheslines are still being sold in Australia and around the world.