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LINKING PEOPLE, JOINING NATIONS
an authoritative account thatwas published in1993.The front cover
of Boyd’s book, incidentally, depicted postage stamps of many
nations that were associated with welding and its processes.
This brings to mind the external pursuits of Prof. Fukuhisa
Matsuda of the Japanese Welding Research Institute at Osaka
University in Japan, and his colleagues, Dr Itsuhi-ko Sejima
and Dr Takashi Nakamura, who assembled a unique
collection of postage stamps from around the world
that depicted various forms of welding and its practices.
These were published in a later book translated into
English by the three authors and published by the Osaka
University in 1996.
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Among these stamps was the first
ever stamp on arc welding issued by SouthAfrica in 1941.
Boyd made many friendships including a lasting one with Mr Henry Granjon who
had also been associated with IIW since it was founded in 1948. They were of equal status in
terms of their contribution to IIW and were part of its success over the many years that they
were associated with one another. Granjon believed that knowledge had little value unless
shared by everyone.
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There was a great sense of loss when Granjon died in 1992 but his
memory lived on through the IIW Henry Granjon Prize, which was established to recognise
the achievements of research students, a cause that he was extremely supportive of and
interested in. The prize, sponsored by the Institut de Soudure, was first awarded in 1992.
The first modern welding technology stamp in the world issued by South Africa
Henry Granjon