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BEWARE of the Japan- ese! They're working like dyna- mos! Watch out for the Germans! They never

YOU'RE

GREAT!

and

let up! The cries --- implications are pretty familiar. But today TREVOR EVANS — a highly skilled industrial observer shows other side of the picture: what the Gor-

mans

EN days ago I had a

T meal in a West End

the

DON'T TAKE IT FROM

ME-IT'S 10 GERMANS

WHO ARE SAYING IT

I'LL TELL YOU WHY

think of US.

with them some curious Ideas new notebooks, You know how Germáns are. But about our industries and about thorough the people who work in them. now I am beginning to wonder Not that they can be blamed how much we know of our own for that. They were the sort countrymen. of ideas one keeps hearing in this country, anyway,

club with 10 Ger- mans. They had arrived in London the night before, I met them again five days later. And, ob, the dif- ference five days can make. So this is the story of 10 Germans "discovering" Eng- land. Maybe there is a lesson for us in what they found for themselves.

Top rankers

SCHRODER was the leader of the party. is the spokesman of the German steel industry.

HER ERNST

13

an

And he the

export, So were other nine. Among them were Germany's top-ranking economic

writers,

They had come as the guests of the Brilish iron and Steel Federation. And they brought

more than a place of work. It has a beautiful dynamism.

"We had no idea you had zuch young managing directors and chief executives. They all appeared to be between 45 and! 56. We have rarely met any-

where in Europe a kener, more perceptive, more comprehensive director then Herr Judge,"

else they will feave

But I was wrong, though I do or not want to detract from De standing" Reid's thoroughness.

Contrasts

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What is the moral of this true Kummary of something which happened in this country only Inst week? There is not just one. There are at least two. WIENE are 10 mines in other Dul Arst let me dispel the TER

coalfields which are as pro- Idea that these German experts ductive and as modernised and were being just polite or were with as good a record an Horden. trying to lull us into compla..

The biggest ateel-producing cency. plant in this country was not on Their dominant characteristic the Germans' roule. It is at was stolid earnestness, They Margam, in South Wales. And meant what they sald, for other reasons, if swanking

Obviously no experts could was the molive behind the hosts" about

arrangements, there are Shotton and out all about us in a werk's and Corby.

visit, however concentrated. No, this area was chosen merely because it has so many There is, however, a comfort In

Ho Is Mr Edward Judge, Dorman Long's chief engineer.

"What fine workers you have, There was an impressive intent nesa and thoroughness your steel operatives, and when we saw the shift coming to the surface at Herden your miners linch a cheerfulness we have seen nowhere else. But how lucky

An

you are in your coal formations. industrial contraste in so small

they ares. And one night at what We learn the average depth of dinner the Germans met repre your coal mines in this country centatives not only of coal and warning. is 300 metres [1,178ft). In the Ruhr it is 760 metres (2,494ft.).

You are fortunate.

"Never

before

and

have I seeTL

agers and

found. Ала

Steel, but of one of the oldest industries, shipbuilding, and one If there are Inspiring man- of the newest, chemicals,

workers in Lincoln- They heard as much as even shire and the North-East, so they could digest of Wilton and there are in other parts of the much cordisk informality between of Billingham, two of the great country. What a fine and solid eat chemical plants in the world. foundation for the future. Thero management, workers

But this was not a regional is too much bickering about what is wrong and not enough cspecially in sice). The good investigation. The Germon CX-

perts demanded and were pro-appreciation of what is good. When the party came back will was so potent, so free and vided with national statistics, to London I asked one of them

particularly on production costs Gratitude what he thought. Frankly, It cosy.

and prices was no more than a polite went into Lincolnshire and saw inquiry, But that coon the Appleby-Frodinghain plant appeared when the cascade

impressions descended. at Sounthorpe.

Herr Schroder and his party

They went to Middlesbrough,

they had dinner In Saltburn,

Baffled

dis...

01

They discovered that our coal

"Wo did not know the British and steel prices are still lower AND the warning? I havo had such a sense of organisa- than German, though the gop foreenst what we may ex- ilon. When we got to Horden is narrowing because our prices peet the Germans to read about Dr William Reid" (he is the are going up faster than theirs. This country in the coming chairman of the Durham Coal They were tremendously im- weeks, It the Germans heed Board) "had not only arranged pressed and surprised that Bri- the conclusions of Herr Schro- our mining overalls and pit- tain has fine directing brains der and his team expect greater helmets, but our names were and cheerful, willing workers. cfforts from their Industries.

on lapel badges and there was a brochure of Durham cool output and future plans in German. It was courteous and thorough.”

'Get busy'

Wo cannot afford to bo superior. My feeling is of gratitude for this reminder of what goes on, day after day, in this country.

they went to a coal mine in 175 have buffled these Ger-

W

mans. What may be more Horden, Co. Durham, and to an important is have WE become works in Barting- blind to what is happening in engineering

our own land? ton. They begrudged sleep,

Remember, these Germans know their own industry "inside And, I have to confess, it was THEY are going back to Ger- many to tell their people

I appreciate it all the And they had accepted enough to make They asked

thousand out."

cynically the same sort of things about us

as we have sold about the Ger- because 1t comes from questions. No one up there had our valuation of ourselves, and

remind you, is suspicious that this was a red- mans. And just as we have of that, let me ever mei such barrage

A Herr Schroder pretty unflattering these

show-window interrogation.

that carpet,

affair never stopped It's the fashion to think

the other fellow la slacking.

especially designed to impress And now 1 quote,

That three-quarter-mile roll- these German visitors,

and his men

taking notes,

ten

Three of them used the back of menu cards while waiting for

STIRLING MOSS

he wearing of

by Barry

FL

the odds know To

driver like Stirling Mose has to face, the only way is to follow him abroad, from track to track, with the Grand Prix circus. Let us take a sample year, 1955, the when he drove with fabulous German "Silver Arrows" as No. 2 driver to World Champion Juan Fangio.

drivers who started the DU-lap. without 3-hour race finished relief. Both Fangle and Mieres,

were Argentines,

days.

ing mill at Dorman Long's· is

Jia

moro

been warning each other, "Look GermLENS. out, those Germania will beat; us in international competition," so

I have a healthy respect these writers will be telling the Germans "We have under for their industrial stand- estimated the British-get busy ards.

AROUND THE TRACKS

went

was

to prevent himself, from being race all their own way, showed when Fangio WDS again in and passing the pits and grand- lapped by Moss. Then Mosa their masterly skill by reducing front. All four German ears stands once more. So It came out of the long tunnel that their lap speeds from around were ahead of the field from on, at speeds approaching en leads on to the quayside with 1 minute 42 seconds to 1 the fifty-fifth lap onward. Fi average of 130 miles per hour, smoke billowing out of his en- minule 50 seconds for at least was lika A. procession. But qui the eighteenth lap, when gine compartment. The next 16 laps. Such figures show the there was a spurt of exclfe- time round,

he retired to the difference between masterly and ment at the end when, as Moss we could see that Mors

missing. His windscreen had pits. An internal oil connection merely highly skilled driving. came out of Tatis Comer (or been shattered by a stone was broken. Ancari seemed to

the last time, Fangio put on be a certain winner, but, dis-

thrown up by Fangio's Lyres- terrifle spurt and almost drew he had been so very close on tracted perhaps by the cheers of

level, with his number 2 for the his teamleader's heels. In two the crowd and 160 miles of

chequered flag.

minutes, Moss was away again, and physical cort he in his turn streaked

having dropped six places.

out of the tunuel, not onto the course, but into the harbour.

sustained mental

Scratch Three

In July of 1956, Stirling Moss achieved one of the great an- bitions of his life when he won the British Grand Prix on the Aintree circuli, before a crowd Could Fanglo have "taken" estimated at 150,000, The British Mosa at any time, and classic run for the first time at he

generously allowing Brooklands in 1026 had never Englishman a win on his home previously been won by a Bri- ground? tish car or driver,

The race was run on a Satur- day July 16-while most con- tinental events are run on a Sunday,

Milan Monza

was the

He now proceeded to lap at of 2 minutes 47 seconds, finally fantastle speeds in the region

setting up a new lap record of 2 minutes 40.9 seconds (134.04 miles per hour) which Fangio could not equal. Bul.on the twenty-eighth lep he packed up at the Valone curve with gear- box trouble.

There was a stunned silence, but Ascari bobbed to the sur- face and was fished safely out of the water by

A few days before the race the but the truth is not that Fangio the crew of a

From

Some spectators thought so.

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of

ho

Grand Prix

A German 2nd

But it was

not Moss's fault dinghy. None of the three Mer trival of the Mercedes cars and put on an extra burst of speed Grand Prix. Mercedes-Benz and It was his inst race with the that he was relieved, On the codes in the race finished. But team had caused great interest at the finish, but that Mose thirtieth lap, he stepped out on what a race Moss had driven in Southport, Lancashire.

Two took his foot off while Fangio no one can deny that, though the circum, with a fuel vapour before engine trouble put vic- huge transportera carried the went on accelerating hard in he had to play second fiddle to

four Mercedes cars that Jock. Hy was immediately seized tory out of his grasp!

were the normal way.

Fangio throughout five of his competing, and in addition there

six Championship events, by officinis and bundled into an ambulance. Only after struggl-

Monie Carlo, the was a travelling workshop, and Calculating that he would had gained wonderful training ing wildly with the ambulance srcus" moved to the very fast an equipment truck. There were win anyway, Moss wonted in the ort attendants did he manage do get in the Ardennes for the Belgian equipe, including 21 mechanics, cedes finish.

elreult of Spa-Francorchamps 35 people In the Mercedes typical, exetting close" Mer- driving back to the Autodrome where he took over the Mererdes of Grand Prix. This circuit uses and also time-keepers, chart-

Finally in 1035, Moss went suffering public roads, with the specta- keepers and signallers. Kari Kling, who was

LOTS strictly controlled, arl

to the famous Monza Au- from quite genuine heat ex-

lup district

The four drivers were Fangio, todrome outside Milan for the 0.70 haustion. Eventually, he finished the

miks, Here tho "Silver Moss, King and the Italian Italian Grand Prix. the Inst fourth. The winner was Fangio, Arrows" had their revenge for veteran Taruff. The team man event in the 1855 Champion- How wise he was to joša the who averaged 80.57 miles per the Monte Carlo failure. Fangio ager Neubauer was accompanied ship series. The Monza circuit German team shown by the hour, and was never relieved. but on one occasion came into and Moss, dutifully following his by Rudolph Uhlenhaut, who had is one of the fastest in Europe. fact that throughout the whole leader, completely dominated designed and constructed the New high speed banked sec of the 1985 Formula I season, the 30-lap race from the fall of Grand Prix cars for Mercedes, tions had been added in time British cars had only one suc- the flag. Fangio's winning ever- and who was responsiblo for for the race. It was estinated case out of thirteen major

2 their final preparations before the that these would make

was in Sicily age was 118-78 m.ph. for

speeds events, hours 30 minutes 28 seconds, race. Such thoroughness paid off of 200 miles per hour possibic, where young Tony Brookes won Moss came in second, a respect when the Mercedes team took and that the average for two the Syracuse Grand Prix. No

the four first places in the race and quarter hours round the wonder people without a single pit stop be- 0.2-mile circuit would be In what a shume it was that no tween them.

region of 190 miles per one could build a British racing cart to match Stirling Moss's siclit, Would he ever be able to in go out after the World Cham- the plonship on a green car? At Monza grand-stands, we watch least, he had finished the non- ed the cars line up от the son second to Fangio in the The three-mile Aintree circuit geld with the Mercedes

table. of championship

It had of the German drivers, in dry towards the World Champlon 14 miles Nurburgring cireuit, private ground by Mrs Mirabelle front row.

Grande Epreuve fast Rheims track, the German

Grand Prix, the tortuous is an artificial one built on Fangio, Moss and Kling in the been a good year.

'The Hag stashed

The story of Stirling and the "Silver Arrows" starts in De cember, 1954, when the news broke that the Englishman had signed a contract to drive for Mercedes-Benz In 1953. In his press photographs, Stirling, then twenty-six. looked almost ab- surdly young Only one other Englishman the brilliant Ric- hard Seaman-had EVER re- ceived a similar invitation He was killed in a Mercedes at the Belgian Grand Prix, on the eve of the Second World War, 1939.

the pit and had gallons of water poured over him.

Monte Carlo

The next championship ovent

ful 8.1 seconds behind his lead

in

Cr.

mile circuit in Monte Carlo it- the cancellation of three im- self, past houses, on everyday portant Grand Prix events,

1955 was the year of the Le of 1955 was in May in Monte Mans tragedy, with its appalling Carlo. This race the Monaco Grand Prix, is held on a two-

loss of Hin. That disaster led to

the

year, as the

The Best time Mess tried out

a Mercedes was on the Hocken helm circuit, in Germany, driving rain,

He equalled the roads. It had been chosen, this French Grand Prix, vn Its very fastest time of Karl Kling, one

weather,

Buenos Aires

It is

Wha

the

held Barcelona.

on a

Dutch Dunes

Aintree

the hour.

It was a

fine. Sunday September whers, from

Spanish Grand Prix Topham and running outside the down and with a great blare

National street circuit at Grand

sleeplechase the cars were away. Tho ex- truck. It is u medium paced cir- cited Hallon crowds in the cult. The race was over 90 laps, grand-stand waved and cheered Moss'e winning everage was as they streaked towards the 80.47 miles per hour, "He also Curva Grande and disappeared. put up the fastest single dop-

a new cireult record—1% 89,70 miles per hour.

ship of which the winner would be awarded the Grand Prix and d'Europe.

The circuit at Monte Carlo la dangerously narrow and wind- The thoroughneas of the Ger- ing. There are two hairpin bends man equipe impressed Moos. He end eight major corners.

In a matter of seconds we was not very comfortable in the called "The Race of a Thousand

saw the cara-opposite the driving seat. When it had been Corners" because there are ten

The next championship event

stands and over the back leg a lap and a hund in which Moss took part removed and modified, Mosa sat cornETA

The German team from the of the course flash down the while Neubauer, apa. The field, in 1955, on top of it,

the Dutch Grand Prix pt

start had it obviously all their straight

Curve towards the the team chief himself, dussed limited to the fastect

twenty Zandvoort, a

pleasant pearldo own way, but the interest for Sud, the "Silver Arrows" in around till he was sure it was cars from the general entry.

resort, with golden nasıla and the spectators was would the the lead. Then, with Moss out absolutely right. The Mercedes

German team-manager, tussocky dunes.

Neu- in front, the field streamed past men insist that not only must Moss, in this race, did belili

bauer, insist, as the had done the The Zandvoort circuit is an during the season, that Fanglo, right hand section of the wide

· grand-slands, using the the car be absolutely right but anily but had bad luck. After the driver absolutely comfort- five imps he and Fanglo, both in artifelat one, built In open his number 1 driver, should be main stewight. From our van- able.

Mercedes, were away out ahead, country in the sand dunes, not victorious again, Mom coming in The sixth lap Moes did in 1 dar from the Hague. It is

Lago point we saw the Cars 0 as usual o discreet few seconds shoot high up on to the bank- The Ant event of the 1956 minute 42.6 seconda which comparatively safe circult from behind? Or would Moss by

ing ice motor-cyclists on 0 World Championship gerica took Fangio beltered just before halt the spectators point of view and allowed for once to go all out "wall of death." place at Buenos Aires, on a 2.6 distance by one-fifth of a second, one which affords them an ex- for victory on his Home mile artificial road circuit, not

cellent view.

ground? And if he was allowed

While we were still catching fast compared with some Euro- Then Fanglo retired at half

to do so, could be beat Fangio mar breath, and the tail of the exie.

The Zandvoort circuit-the pean ones, but with a number of distance with

Fangio led at the end of the Beld was still passing pits and ricky curves. The month was Moss wa

rape was over 100 laps of 2.4 alice cach-la January,

Stirling a comparatively first Jap.

slammed grand-stands, the Mercedes of summer, and the weather wao A four-fho distance--80 slow one. It was made slower through to take the lend on the Moss and Fangio came into very hot. When the race started, laps Moss was well ahead of in 1958 by a drizzle of rain at third lap and stayed thero for view again, screaming down off

Accori, the temperature was 140 degrees Alberto

driving a three-quarters distance. Fangio the rest of the race, except for the banking on to the leti band Fahrentieft, and only two Lancia, and driving like a fory, and Moss, who sguía had the eight laps at quarter distance section of the main straight,

the Argentine high

→ broken the lead

...

This

Were

saying

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Is that the one they've been trying out on the Arabe "