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Dahl's Days at Shell • Haven Remodelled Make the Future ISSUE 176 AUTUMN 2016 MAKE THE FUTURE DAHL'S DAYS AT SHELL • HAVEN REMODELLED SPA LINDA'S EDITORIAL AUTUMN 2016 Dear Readers, sculptor Patricia Bannister, many of whose Elsewhere we have your regular wonderful creations were inspired by her favourites: Tina Gilchrist's insightful updates Welcome to your SPA News autumn travels with Shell, and on p19 we say on all matters financial on p11-13; a round- edition. As I write, the leaves are beginning hello to Roy Emery, who's designed and up of recent reunions and branch news, to fall from the trees and I'm seriously built an amazing model railway replica of along with some great photos, on p24-25; debating that age-old autumnal conundrum: Shell Haven. Time Out offers on p22-23, including the when to let your resolve crumble and reach With regards to what's happening in chance to win a pair of tickets for the great for the central heating 'On' button! It's the company, we welcome the new Shell new Carravagio exhibition at the National going to be any day now, Readers, I'm UK Chair, Sinead Lynch, on page 9, Gallery. quite sure ... while on page 10 we hear about a new Thanks as usual for your lovely letters; The cover of this issue is one of the initiative for the company's retail outlets: please keep them coming. Suggestions for great photos that were taken at Shell's Welcome to Shell. future articles are always very welcome, recent Make the Future event, which by How many of you knew that beloved too. The deadline for material for the winter all accounts was an outstanding success author, Roald Dahl, began his working issue of your magazine is 28 November. (see p9). life with Shell? As this year would have Enjoy the lovely colours of autumn that In this issue Ardella Jones bring us news been his 100th birthday, we take a look at should be upon us very soon! about two of our members' retirement those early years and read about how his activities. On p14 we meet artist and postings helped inspire some of his most Warm regards, famous works. Linda. SPA BENEFITS These are some of the regular benefits, to the best of our knowledge. Some may be not CONTACTS always be available . You may need to show your membership card and/or quote SPA.. Our message, however, is always to “shop around” Editor Details on the SPA website: www.pensions.shell.co.uk/spa Linda Fernley Email: [email protected] INSURANCE Home, motor, travel: SPA Secretary Sutton Winson 0800 783 3723 [email protected] Helen Page www.suttonwinson.com/SPA 50plus Insurance (Bluefin) 0800 195 8002 Tel: 020 7934 5129 Health, Bupa 0800 600 500 quote 9147 Email: [email protected] Health, HMCA 01423 866985 www.hmca.co.uk/shellpa RAC breakdown 0800 096 6836 quoting EBS001 will be discontinued 2016 Assistant Secretary Denplan 0800 838 951 www.denplan.co.uk Lynn Forsdyke Tel: 020 7934 5137 FINANCE Email: [email protected] Foreign exchange, UK Forex https://www.ukforex.co.uk/?pid=1344 Fin. 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Apart from its famous Casinos, it transpired that Macau is home to the highest ‘Bungy jump’ in the world, a fall of 233m (780 ft) from the top of the Macau Tower. I decided to go up the Tower for the view and to watch some of the jumpers and when I bought an entry ticket was asked my age. I thought there might be an age restriction for entry to the high tower for insurance purposes, so asked why she wanted to know my age. Astonishingly, I was told that if I was over 65 the Bungy jump from the top of the tower, normally priced at almost $4,000 Macau patacas (£370), was free! Since this was my 66th birthday, and I was on the other side of the world, it seemed an opportunity too Image 1: Being prepared good to refuse. The day was bright and free of any mist or rain, so Image 2: About to jump with camera on wrist the views over the ex-Portuguese colony were magnificent. Image 3: Aghhh ... Would I recommend this to other pensioners? Absolutely! It was a The whole experience was run extremely professionally and the brilliant experience. Congratulations to AJ Hackett, owners of the Jump Team were very friendly, calming and helpful. Most of the enterprise, for offering a truly tangible and expensive experience team were Philippinos, but the cameraman was from Swansea. free to Pensioners. The jump itself was seriously invigorating and nowhere near as traumatic as one might expect, although the photo taken as I I admire your adventurous spirit Peter by my legs go to jelly just launched myself off the platform might not indicate this! looking at the photos! Ed. HOOPLA! YVONNE A. CHAPPELL I recently came across this photo in a 1982 Chairman's Bulletin. The caption reads: "Plastic goods became part of everyday life, here demonstrated in the hula-hoop being tried out by Shell girls in London in 1958." At that time I was working at Crosby Square, but can't fathom out where the photo was taken; I wonder if anybody recognises the location or any of the Shell 'girls'? SPA NEWS | 3 SPA LETTERS MORE BADER BANTER ANNE FERGUSON In 1965 my husband, Harry Ferguson, was a pioneer knew all the workings of a Hovercraft that was difficult but he Hovercraft pilot on the Clyde in Scotland working for a private managed it. When alone with Douglas Bader again Harry entrepreneur. Faced with probable redundancy Harry contacted asked who the person was asking these ridiculous questions. the then British Hovercraft Corporation, who he knew well from Bader replied "Should you join us dear boy he will be your having trained with them on the Isle of Wight, to ask them to Managing Director." It was Pat Thomson, with whom later, as put forward his name should anyone be looking for a hovercraft his Hovercraft Pilot, Harry had a very good rapport. pilot. Harry's Hovercraft License is number 9 in the world; one of the first to be issued after the BHC pilots themselves. After first refusing the job because the salary offered was too low, a better offer was made and Harry accepted. We On the day that Harry was in London discussing a job with first ascertained where on the globe Brunei was then packed Hover Lloyd, a letter arrived from Shell offering him a job our barang, four year old and baby son and shipped off to running the Hovercraft for Brunei Shell. At his interview at faraway Borneo. We jokingly referred to Harry as the Head Shell Centre he met the Director of Shell Aviation, Douglas Hunted of Borneo! Due to the increasing distances of offshore Bader, whose first words while shaking hands were "Baader's rigs, Brunei Shell's hovercraft experiment didn't last but Harry the name old boy, Baader". Anyone who called him "Baider" did. He joined Aviation Department at Anduki and spent the was in deep trouble! next 28 years with SIPC. Harry was shown a presentation film of the Hovercraft working Douglas Bader, in his capacity as Shell Aviation Director, made offshore in the Brunei oilfields, and was told there would be periodic visits to Brunei where he was always royally treated a gentleman in a seat at the front who would interject many and, no matter what plans for an evening one may have had, times with perhaps seemingly irrelevant questions but, no if summoned to dinner with him, no amount of excuses were matter what, Harry was not to say a word. For someone who accepted. We simply went! 'AVE YOU GOT A LIGHT, FIFTY YEARS ON ID BOY?! EVAN HILL STEVE CRANE Re Jim Clark's photo on p6 in the last issue, the group of heavily over-coated gents in 1966 was taken at Dyce Airport, Aberdeen At the museum where I volunteer (Burwell Museum, near long before it became something grander. I used to fly out of it Cambridge), we were recently donated the tin shown in the in Dakotas to Wick and other North airports. Frank Burnett is on attached photos. It currently contains mostly chess pieces, the extreme left of the photo. The other gents are I presume Shell but the original contents were much more interesting – small people (see p6 for further identification, Ed). capsules filled with genuine Shell spirit for refuelling petrol lighters. These must have been some of the smallest quantities in I'd been based in Aberdeen at one time during my 22 years which you could buy Shell petrol! in Real Estate, and I used Frank as an agent acting for us in property matters.
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