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Ivor Catt, 121 Westfields,
St. Albans AL3 4JR The
Editor, The English Disease My diary says that I will visit you at 11am on wed11jan95, and that presents no problems. Lipschutz has telephoned me weekly for some years. Last week, I spent two days with him at his home near Cardiff. This was the first time we met. I enclose Darrington's article on L. Lipschutz says he will go along with anything I write. The enclosed prints show that EW+WW has been heavily involved with Catt and Lipschutz invention over a long period. This is a "family" matter. (I cannot find the original WW July81 article on Catt Spiral WSI.) The new point to be made in my proposed article is 1 that this matter is not personal, and 2 that we are not only crying over spilt milk. We are crying over milk which is going to be spilt in the near future, details supplied. The Kernel machine is still current, but I am now letting the world patents lapse. Even with my record, (£16millions spent on Spiral, which came to market 17 years after patenting,) there has during the last few years been no activity whatsoever over Kernel. All government and other action over my inventions has been disorderly, as mentioned by one WW letter. Similarly Lipschutz's U-plane, which has massive potential. (In the 70's I published in WW and elsewhere that the British Government sabotaged new invention and new industry.) As I write, a representative of British Aerospace is visiting Lipschutz. I insist that this is play-acting. There is no possibility that British Aerospace will have any truck with a radically new product with major profit potential. (Apart from oil), having no other assets, the British need to be more competent in assessing and acting over invention and new product development. I know that this is well known, but with its long track record, £16millions spent on Catt Spiral, the collapse of the kernel machine is a good time to take stock (again). Yours sincerely, Ivor |