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Enrollment day at the RMIT saw about two hundred applicants crowding into the Architecture School to be assigned to their study groups. I had done pa... See more
Alistair Knox
my last day of term at the Royal College of Art, I drove down newly opened stretches of the M4 from London to Bath. It was time to start work. I was now general manager for Rotork Marine with a salary of £2,500 ($3,500), an Issigonis Morris 1100 as my company car, and a job to make and sell the Sea Truck.
James Dyson • Invention: A Life
From his earliest days Alistair was very keen to inspire others to build in mud brick. His son Hamish suggested that Alistair was far more interested in helping aspiring do-it-yourself mud brick home builders than talking to paying clients. Amongst his unpublished papers is a book he was preparing called 'The Home Builders Manual of Mud Brick Desig
... See moreWe championed our British cars, too, and as far as I was concerned we went on to own two of the best. These were the Morris Minor and the Mini. They were both designed by one of my engineering heroes, Alec Issigonis, not that I knew his name at the time,
James Dyson • Invention: A Life
I met Margot Edwards during 1948 in Matcham Skipper's Studio behind the Russell Street police station, and it was only a short time afterwards that I became her lover and a constant visitor to her in a loft in Ivanhoe. Margot was only eighteen years old and one of the most beautiful girls I had ever seen. S... See more
Alistair Knox
meet him off Gravesend with a barge
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
We prowled the auction sites, craigslist up the east coast, then across the gulf coast, then large cities up and down the Mississippi River and Tombigbee internal waterway system, Chicago Nautical Donations, Deltaville Maritime Museum (field of Dreams), Cooper Specialty Salvage, eBay, Certified Sales and the other auction outlets. After a week we w
... See moreKeith Carver • Sailboat Cowboys Flipping Sail Post-Sandy: The Art of Buying, Repairing and Selling Storm-Damaged Sailboats
I contracted to scrap some junked and abandoned sailboats for the lead in the keels while we were there, sawed one up and sold the lead keel and netted $750 for ourselves the first day.