Likes A Thrill

NZ Truth, Issue 1201, 6 December 1928, Page 6

Likes A Thrill

/^•ENERAIiLiY a man is not judged VJ by what he Is, but by what he does. Success or achievement doesn't come by sitting back and looking. at the other fellow. It's a foregone conclusion that Duncan F. Bauchop, of Wellington, Would subscribe to these sentiments. , As the general manager m New Zealand for Leyland Motors, Ltd., Duncan Bauchop wasn't spoon-fed Into the job. Ho knows as much about the internal combustion of the tpucks he sells as he does abou^ the business organization of the concern. If you ever find an excuse for wandering into his offices m the big HuddartParker building on the waterfront, you'll find him a most interesting man to converse w,}th. Things mechanical he knows all about, for he is a qualified engineer, with half the letters of the alphabet straggling after his name. Your attention will be centred on one or two curios he-has on his writingdesk. One is a hydrostat from depth-taking gear, once ! attached -to a German naval mine. He has intimate associations With such things. During the war, as a LieutenantCommander, Bauchop first started lecturing at a naval engineering college m England and was later experimenting with mines. A tehnis-'player of no mean ability, Bauchon sometimes braces up to the net for an enjoyable hour's play. Ho learnt the game m Canterbury, where, m his younger days, he represented the province m various branches of athletics. And sometimes he gets a thrill out of motor racing on the Muriwai and Oreti beaches. ' I