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Swiss delegate on Commission VI, who undertook the considerable task of seeing this nine-language work (and several subsequent sec– tions) through the press, partly because the Swiss believed that, as a trilingual country, there would be a good home market for such a publication. In the event, and with the advantage of the Unesco subventions which continued until 1965, seven sections of the Multi– lingual Colleaion of Tenns were published in Switzerland under con– tract with the IIW. It was not until 1979 that, by mutual agreement, publication was transferred to the Slovenian member society where it has remained under the supervision of Dr P Stular, the present Chairman of Commission VI. This pattern of publication by member societies, which required no capital expenditure by the IIW but which in most cases con– tributed royalties to the Institute, was to become the norm for the publication of books compiled by the Commissions. Examples of such books are too numerous to mention individually, but it is of interest to note that several of them were produced in different editions and different languages by various member societies. However, one im– portant exception to publication under this procedure was The Physics of Welding which was originally issued in English by the commercial publisher Pergamon Press and subsequently in a Japanese edition. Another recent exception was the draft standard on fitness for pur– pose which was issued by the IIW itself, taking advantage of modern desk-top publishing techniques which may make possible a greater diversity of procedures in the future. RADIOGRAPHS Another early publishing venture of the IIW was the issue by Com– mission V of the Colleaion ofReference Radiographs of Welds. This was first proposed in 1952 and came on the market in 1953, having been published under contract with the IIW by a consortium of organisa– tions in Scandinavia and the Netherlands. The radiographs showed defects in welds classified in five degrees of severity. Although the IIW expressly disclaimed the Collection's status as a standard, it was widely regarded as such, and in consequence made a considerable range of industrial users aware of the IIW. Two further Collections and a booklet were subsequently compiled, the object of all being to serve as a guide for the interpretation of radiographs and as a teaching aid in the training of radiographic inspectors.