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‎Guldenboek . Het Personeel van Bell Telephone Mfg. Co met diepe waardering aan Mr. Leo Van Dijck bij zijn 50 jarig Ambtsjubileum 1902 - 1952.‎

‎11. Antwerpen, Bell Telephone Mfg. Co, 1952 (publisher ) , Buschmann ( editor-printer), in-folio, 38 x 28 cm, (18) nn pp + (132) nn pp (signatures of the employees). Bound in full blue leather binding with large gilt title on the frontcover written around the company's ensign, top edge gilt, endpapers in grey coloured silk, kept in a matching paper covered box. ( Unsigned binding made on order of the Antwerp printing house Buschmann). Unique and only copy of a '' Livre d'Or '' presented to Baron Ir. Leo Van Dijck to honour the 50 years he was involved with the Bell Telephone Company in Antwerp. Leo Van Dijck was a charismatic captain of industry. He became managing director of the company in 1935. He retired from the company in 1961 after a career of nearly 60 years. He was also, with Lieven Gevaert, founder of the V.I.V (Vlaamsche Ingenieurs Vereeniging - 1928). The book contains 4 original drawings heightened with watercolours, representing the buidings of the company, the first telephone manufactured at the Antwerp plant, a portrait of Leo van Dijck with a bird's eye view of the company's buildings. The main part of the book consists of 132 pp each containing 58 holograph signatures, neatly written in uniformly coloured blue ink, of the employees of the company . In 1952 over 7200 persons were working there.‎