THE ITEM:
SHIP RECOGNITION
"LINERS"
AND THEIR RECOGNITION
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THE WRITER
LAURENCE DUNN
".... Laurence Dunn, a man of encyclopaedic knowledge, he began his lifelong love of ships in Brixham, where he meticulously recorded passing traffic with the exquisitely accurate line drawings which later became something of a trademark. While studying at London’s Central School of Art his work was noticed by the Southern Railway, which commissioned profiles of its fleet, and this in turn led to work for Orient Line, where he also designed the well-known corn-coloured hull, and later Thorneycroft, where he helped with shaping draft plans for a new royal yacht. During the second world was he worked for naval intelligence at the Admiralty, where his technique did much to improve recognition standards, and greatly expanded his shipping clientele, becoming personally known to many chairmen. As well as the shipping press he worked for mainstream publications such as Everybody’s, Sphere and the upmarket comic Eagle. Through his many contacts he enjoyed going to sea in a great variety of ships from aircraft carriers to colliers. Laurence wrote several books, starting with ship recognition titles which introduced new standards of layout, but his best known work was probably Passenger Liners, which was widely taken up by the travel trade. His love of Greece, where he was an early publicist of island cruising, let to involvement in reshaping various passenger liners beginning with Greek Line’s OLYMPIA. In later life he designed several sets of shipping stamps for the Crown Agents, produced photographic volumes on Thames and Mediterranean shipping and still found time to enjoy the passing Thames traffic ..."
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THE PUBLISHER:
ADLARD COLES LTD
(FORMER ROBERT ROSS & CO LTD)
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO LTD
LONDON - TORONTO - SYDNEY - WELLINGTON
NO YEAR MENTIONED, BUT CA. 1953
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SIZED
CENTIMETERS: 19 X 12,5
PAGES: 160
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CONDITION
GENERAL:
REASONABLE TO GOOD, SOME SMALL WRITING IN INK ON FIRST PAGE, SOME RELEVANT NOTES MADE IN PENCIL THROUGHOUT TEXT
COVER:
BOUND IN GREEN CLOTH WITH TITLE AND SMALL ILLUSTRAION STAMPED ON FRONT-SIDE AND SPINE, BIT RUBBED AND DISCOLOURED, CORNERS AND EDGES VERY LIGHTLY BUMPED
SPINE:
IDEM
PAGES:
LITTLE DISCOLOURED, HARDLY TO NO SIGNS OF USAGE
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