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in the Westinghouse camp but not unalterably so. Whitcomb was run by a guy who was well known in the small locomotive business named [[underlined]] H.V. Huleguard [[/underlined]] whose title was general manager. He was better known as "Hap" and in spite of the fact I became very well acquainted with him, I never learned his first name. In fact, I became so well acquainted with Hap that Willie and I had dinner with him and his second wife the day of their wedding in New York--just the four of us although I don't think it was a wedding celebration dinner, just happening to fall into place because of a certain circumstances. Also we entertained Hap and Dale (his wife) at dinner on the S.S.MONTEREY in Los Angeles the night we sailed for Bora Bora in 1964 with Whitey and Carol Wilson. I've had a lot of fun with Hap over the years but am now out of touch with him. He was about my age, tall, slim and blond and a hell-raising character with a lot of ability. I never knew much of his background but always assumed he was a Swede from the United States of Minnesota or thereabouts. He and his first wife had been divorced, had no children, and when I met Hap he was a bachelor playing the field. He had an apartment in Rochelle as well as a farm nearby. His second wife, Dale, lived in New York with her uncle, who was very wealthy and this was where Hap met her. Hap was very independent and finally disagreed with Baldwin about the way Whitcomb should be run, resigned, and moved to California where he set up a small electronics business and had a home in Pacific Palisades which he bought for a song because it was supposed to be about to slide into the Pacific Ocean. For an account of a somewhat typical party with Hap as well as details on Dale, who was quite a remarkable gal, please refer to February 3, 1964 entry in my diary.

[[underline]] Davenport Besler Corp. [[/underline]]: Another small midwestern locomotive builder located in Davenport, Iowa. and producing both steam and internal-combustion engine units, the latter with either mechanical or electric drive. The president was [[underline]] Walter Chadwick [[/underline]], a heavyset, jovial, uninhibited man in his 50s who was well liked in the industry. He had a neat little plant, somewhat smaller than Whitcomb but producing good work. In fact, Davenport Besler produced the first 44-ton Caterpillar equipped railway-type locomotives which was quite a feather in their cap and gave us some anxious moments on the Boston & Maine job that I struggled on so long. I visited their plant and had a number of contacts with Walter, particularly in Whashington on the WPB work. Walter's sales VP was [[underline]] George Koch [[/underline]], a nice guy but one I never felt as at home with as Walter. The chief engineer was [[underline]] Waldo Rodler [[/underline]], a very quiet, pleasant man who gave me the surprise of my life by turning up working in our own GE locomotive engineering operation one day after I'd been out of touch with Davenport for a while after the war. Davenport was a nice outfit.