Author: Sanderson, Basil
Title: Ships and Sealing Wax. The Memoirs of Basil, Lord Sanderson of Ayot
Description: London, Heinemann, (1967). orig.cloth. 25x15cm, vii,282,(9)pp. Frontispiece,9pp photoplates. Minor rubbing, VG, in a rubbed & torn dustwrapper. dustwrapper ¶ Memoirs of the President of the International Shipping Federation [1934 - 1950]; Chairman of Shaw Savill Shipping Line [1947 - 1963]; President of the British Employer's Confederation; Member of the Court of the Bank of England & "a pioneer of decasualization of labour in the docks". Contents: Early Days; Continental Asides; Trinity College; 1914 - 16; 1917 - 18; Early Business Life: 1919 - 23; 1923 - 29; "The Sins of the Fathers..."; Civil Servant: 1939 - 45; City Life: 1945 - 63: Royal Occasions & Anniversaries; Industrial Relations Post-War; Sidelines; In Retrospect.

Keywords: Industrial History, Shipping Industry, Shaw-Savil Line, Merchant Marine, Economic, Business Biography, Great Britain, Memoirs,