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Automobile Technical Committee : New Chairman.

6th September 1917
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Keywords : Perforce, Human Interest

IT IS NOT of the men that matter most in the largest industrial concerns that one hears most, as a rule. People who are far more in the public eye, either by their own efforts or by those of their sup'porters, are very frequently identified with relatively minor concerns.. One knows more, for instance, of the man who popularized the four-and-ninepenny felt hat than one does of the men who built "The Tiger." More fame (or shall we only call it publicity ?) has accrued to Mr. Sam Isa,acs than to the designer of the first British submarine engine. The world would seem to be unkindly and unfair in many such cases. Yet from personal acquaintance with not a few who work behind the scenes, it is certain that publicity is the last reward that is sought by many of the nation's cleverest and best. One of Tickers' moss accomplished specialists is Mr. A, Arnold Remington, chief engineer to the great Wolseley factories and consultant to other allied organizations. Yet there are

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not a few men in the motor-vehicle industry, of pigmy capacity in comparison, whose names are in print for some minor reason or other ten times more frequently than his. Mr. Remington, 'to our knowledge, like others of his capacity, deprecates self-advertisement, and yet his solid achievements in the direction of design and rendering great output possible have been of the, utmost value. He is the new Chairman of the Automobile Technical Committee, and a better choice could not have been made., Few people know that it was he who designed the first two types of all-British intilti-cylirsder submarine engines, an his tonic achievement and one of which the industry mas well be proud in to-day's circumstances. To oui knowledge his services in other directions, during the present war, have been no less of national moment, even if they have perforce been rendered in the same honourable obscurity.


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