Gloster Aircraft Company by DEREK JAMES


Authors
DEREK JAMES
ISBN
9780752400389
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Dimensions
172 x 240 x 10mm

Today it is difficult to imagine that the parishes of Hucclecote and Brockworth once were home to one of Britain's major manufacturers.

Gloster Aircraft Company, with its forebears H.H.Martyn tCompany and Gloucestershire Aircraft Company, produced some 10,000 aeroplanes between 1917 and 1963. It also provided employment for countless thousands of local people. During World War II alone it employed 14,000 men and women working at the main factory and at 40 sites dispersed in Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud and other more distant parts of Gloucestershire.

Gloster designed a number of outstanding fighter aircraft which were built in large numbers; it also produced many prototypes which failed to win orders and very many more projects which never left the drawing board. By chance the company was chosen to design and build Britain's first jet aircraft and followed by building 4,000 jet fighters for the Royal Air Force and a dozen air forces around the world. Gloster finally became the first victim of a programme of political and economic stringency which has since decimated British aircraft manufacturing companies.

This album portrays some of those people who worked 'up at the 'drome for GAC' and the works of their hands.
Christmas Catalogue 2024 x BookFrenzy
28.04
RRP: $32.99
15% off RRP


This product is unable to be ordered online. Please check in-store availability.
Instore Price: $32.99
Enter your Postcode or Suburb to view availability and delivery times.

Other Titles by DEREK JAMES

Westland
DEREK JAMES
24.99
21.24
15% Off
Spirit of Hamble
DEREK JAMES
32.99
28.04
15% Off
Gloster Aircraft Company
47.99
40.79
15% Off
Plumes of Smoke The Destruction of Montecassino 1944
90.00
76.50
15% Off

You might also like

Big History
69.99
29.99
57% Off
Chernobyl Prayer
22.99
19.54
15% Off
One Summer America 1927
24.99
21.24
15% Off
The Quality of Love
39.99
33.99
15% Off
Times Monster
24.99
21.24
15% Off
About Time
22.99
19.54
15% Off
Highland Clans
19.99
16.99
15% Off
History of Scotland
24.99
21.24
15% Off
Scottish History for Dummies
39.95
31.95
20% Off
Somewhere Below
28.95
9.99
65% Off
Bloody History Of America
49.99
14.99
70% Off

RRP refers to the Recommended Retail Price as set out by the original publisher at time of release.
The RRP set by overseas publishers may vary to those set by local publishers due to exchange rates and shipping costs.
Due to our competitive pricing, we may have not sold all products at their original RRP.