"A Hills Hoist is a height-adjustable rotary clothes line, designed to permit the compact hanging of wet clothes so that their maximum area can be exposed for wind drying by rotation.
The Hills Hoist has been manufactured in Adelaide, South Australia by Lance Hill since 1945. The Hills Hoist and similar rotary clothes hoists remain a common fixture in many backyards in Australia and New Zealand. They are considered one of Australia´s most recognisable icons, and are used frequently by artists as a metaphor for Australian suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s. The opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics featured a sequence with giant Hills Hoist robots roaming around the arena. Although originally a product name, the term "Hills Hoist" became synonymous with rotary clothes hoists and clothes line in general, throughout Australia." - (en.wikipedia.org 26.12.2020)
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