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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack Butting through the channel in the mad March days which inspired those famous lines by John Masefield was in reality a death trap. In the nineteenth century thousands of colliers steamed out of the north east coal ports heading south and were never seen again. Many of the losses were due to just one inherent weakness in design the hatch cover a cumbersome and dangerously inefficient arrangement of wooden planks covered by heavy tarpaulins. It was not until late in the 1930s that they were to be superseded and this change in attitude gave impetus to the work of two dedicated naval architects Robert and Joseph MacGregor Since 1925 Robert had worked to perfect an acceptable design of steel isatch cover. In 1933 he entered into partnership with his brother Joseph and in November 1945 Henri Kummerman arrived on the Tene for his first meeting with the MacGregors Kummerman’s extraordinary entrepreneurial talent was to be the catalyst that activated the now legendary success of the international MacGregor organisation That these men came together to change the shape of ships is a matter of record. The driving energy and passion with which Henri Kummerman ser about telling the world about the need for change are described in the pages of this book as is the story of this highly successful multe national business (SP)