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Contents


Contents


Regulars Letter from the Chairman


Institution news Book reviews


What’s happening What’s new


8 9


26 30 34


Volume 37 Number 2


Features Making History


Back of the Net Looking Back


4-7


HRH The Duke of Edinburgh presents the Institution with its Royal Charter at a Champagne reception held at St James’s Palace


12-13


Blair Hutton ponders the nature of engineering designers


14-18 Colin Ledsome looks at the advanced passenger train


Obituary 19 Professor Merrick Wentworth Taylor OBE HonFIED (PP) 7 June 1938-14 February 2012


Oceans 12 Meet the Member 20-22


A third generation fleet of ocean racing yachts, the Clipper 70s, are taking shape for 2013


23-25


Retired Member T N Davies discusses his research into cross-cultural differences in visual perception


Super-able by Design? 28-29


Student Member Robyn Hamilton presents the case for putting design skills to good use in the field of prosthetics


Designs of the Year


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