The House Magazine of SCOTT WILSON KIRKPATRICK AND PARTNERS No. 29 Summer 1972 PRINTED IN ENGLAND by WIGOTMAN MOUNTAIN LTD. WESIMINSIER LONDON, S.W.l CONTENTS PARTNERS’ PANORAMA . 3 OBITUARY . 5 M6 MOTORWAY WINS Civic TRUST AWARD . 6 BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI by Steve Hobden . 8 VINTAGE MECHANIC by Morris Hopkins . 10 THE WORLD OF BERT BADGER by Arturo Rotunda . 12 GRUBE-SCOTT—THE NEW EUROPEANS 15 IF IT MOVES b John Franklin . 17 NEW JOB NUMBERS . 21 NEWSLETTERS: Brunei . 23 Glasgow . 25 Kendal . 26 London . 26 Malawi . 27 Maleria . 28 Nigeria . 29 Northern Ireland . 32 Starnberg . 32 . STAFF NOTES . 34 WEDDINGS . 36 CLUB NOTES: Cricket . 38 Camera . 39 . Darts . 39 Golf . 40 Squash . 40 Tennis . 41 Badminton . 42 Soccer . 42 INIA’S P0UIHI . 44 UKAPE GETS 262 . 48 KWAI CHUNG GROUND-BREAKING CEREMONY . 49 THE ALTERNATIVE VIEW by Richer Navel . 50 APOLOGIES AND CORRECTIONS . 51 EDITORIAL . 51 Cover Photograph The Pouihi at New Zealand House during erection. (Picture taken before the prows were attached; see Wally Grainger’s article). PONTIFACT No. 29 SUMMER, 1972 3 Partners’ Panorama the last issue of Pontifact Mr. Hawkey, he should take over the bridging practice from in his Partners’ Panorama, announced W. L. Scott and the bridging which formed an that he and Oliver Measor would be appreciable part of both our rural and urban retiring during 1972. As you all know both motorway work retired on April 5th. Only a few members of the Mr. Measor has always been interested in new staff will be able to look back to the early days techniques and the original B.E.A. Maintenance when E.O.M., R.W.H. and myself formed the Base was one of the first examples of prestressed present firm so it may be of interest to say a few concrete work in this country. Computing was words about this period. also introduced with his blessing at an early date E.O.M. had been in the Army in India during and we are still wondering whether this has the war and joined Scott & Wilson in 1946, simplified or complicated our lives. He also took becoming a Partner in 1950 shortly after W. I.. a keen interest in the overseas practices visiting Scott had died of a heart attack. Three years Nyasaland and Hong Kong on many occasions. later Guthlac Wilson and his wife Mary were In the early 1950’s air travel was not as safe or both tragically killed in an air accident near reliable as it is today and I have an interesting Dar-es-Salaam. colour slide of Honor and Oliver Measor Livingstone Airport Oliver Measor and myself then found our boarding a Comet I plane at letters YP clearly visible on the tail. selves the sole surviving partners. There was with the Comet Yoke Peter which more than enough work both at home and This was the ill-fated Elba few weeks later. abroad to keep the firm busy for many years, disintegrated over a In addition to strictly engineering activities he alid our problem was to find a suitable partner. took the lead in directing the administrative and Over a period of about a year we met a number of the London Practice, he served of possible candidates but John Henry, who had financial sides distinction on the Council of the Association previously worked with Sir Cyril Kirkpatrick, with of Consulting Engineers and many of the eventually provided the solution by introducing Committees of the Institution of Civil Engineers. us to Mr. Hawkey and from this meeting the remember his stylish performances as present firm evolved. We also a batsman in the firm’s annual cricket matches The period since 1954 when the amalgamation and his enthusiasm for golf which resulted in the took place has been one of expansion and establishment of the annual Measor Mashie achievement. The growth has been the end Competition. product of a number of factors, not the least Mr. Hawkey’s activities were to a great extent being teamwork and the degree of unanimity complimentary to E.O.M.’s. He had joined Sir period. which developed during this Cyril Kirkpatrick & Partners in 1935 becoming a Mr. Measor’s main sphere of activity was in partner in 1944. During the war he had taken a structural engineering and one has only to look very active part in the Group of Consultants at the skyline of London to see examples of his responsible for the Mulbery Harbour operation. work, the Festival Hall, the Shell Centre, For the benefit of some of the younger generation Commercial Union, New Zealand House to who may not remember the 1939—45 war mention only a few, and outside London, the should explain that Mulbery Harbour was the B.E.A. Maintenance Bases at London Airport, mobile port which was towed to Normandy on Dungeness ‘B’ Atomic Power Station and the D Day and formed the beach head for the Allied Hong Kong tunnel are amongst the jobs which Invasion of Europe. His main activities were come most readily to mind. marine work, water supply, sewerage and heavy His main love was for bridging, born during foundations. Shortly after the amalgamation the pre-war years when he worked for Rendel of our two firms he found himself actively Palmer & Tritton on the Twickenham Bridge engaged on the foundations and substructure of and later on the imposing long span Howrah the Shell Building. Outside London he was Bridge in Calcutta. It was natural, therefore, that active on marine and drainage works in North PONTIFACT No. 29 SUMMER, 1972 3 Partners’ Panorama the last issue of Pontifact Mr. Hawkey, he should take over the bridging practice from in his Partners’ Panorama, announced W. L. Scott and the bridging which formed an that he and Oliver Measor would be appreciable part of both our rural and urban retiring during 1972. As you all know both motorway work retired on April 5th. Only a few members of the Mr. Measor has always been interested in new staff will be able to look back to the early days techniques and the original B.E.A. Maintenance when E.O.M., R.W.H. and myself formed the Base was one of the first examples of prestressed present firm so it may be of interest to say a few concrete work in this country. Computing was words about this period. also introduced with his blessing at an early date E.O.M. had been in the Army in India during and we are still wondering whether this has the war and joined Scott & Wilson in 1946, simplified or complicated our lives. He also took becoming a Partner in 1950 shortly after W. I.. a keen interest in the overseas practices visiting Scott had died of a heart attack. Three years Nyasaland and Hong Kong on many occasions. later Guthlac Wilson and his wife Mary were In the early 1950’s air travel was not as safe or both tragically killed in an air accident near reliable as it is today and I have an interesting Dar-es-Salaam. colour slide of Honor and Oliver Measor Livingstone Airport Oliver Measor and myself then found our boarding a Comet I plane at letters YP clearly visible on the tail. selves the sole surviving partners. There was with the Comet Yoke Peter which more than enough work both at home and This was the ill-fated Elba few weeks later. abroad to keep the firm busy for many years, disintegrated over a In addition to strictly engineering activities he alid our problem was to find a suitable partner. took the lead in directing the administrative and Over a period of about a year we met a number of the London Practice, he served of possible candidates but John Henry, who had financial sides distinction on the Council of the Association previously worked with Sir Cyril Kirkpatrick, with of Consulting Engineers and many of the eventually provided the solution by introducing Committees of the Institution of Civil Engineers. us to Mr. Hawkey and from this meeting the remember his stylish performances as present firm evolved. We also a batsman in the firm’s annual cricket matches The period since 1954 when the amalgamation and his enthusiasm for golf which resulted in the took place has been one of expansion and establishment of the annual Measor Mashie achievement. The growth has been the end Competition. product of a number of factors, not the least Mr. Hawkey’s activities were to a great extent being teamwork and the degree of unanimity complimentary to E.O.M.’s. He had joined Sir period. which developed during this Cyril Kirkpatrick & Partners in 1935 becoming a Mr. Measor’s main sphere of activity was in partner in 1944. During the war he had taken a structural engineering and one has only to look very active part in the Group of Consultants at the skyline of London to see examples of his responsible for the Mulbery Harbour operation. work, the Festival Hall, the Shell Centre, For the benefit of some of the younger generation Commercial Union, New Zealand House to who may not remember the 1939—45 war mention only a few, and outside London, the should explain that Mulbery Harbour was the B.E.A. Maintenance Bases at London Airport, mobile port which was towed to Normandy on Dungeness ‘B’ Atomic Power Station and the D Day and formed the beach head for the Allied Hong Kong tunnel are amongst the jobs which Invasion of Europe. His main activities were come most readily to mind.