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Gloster Aircraft Company: Images of England (Paperback, 2009)
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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 & Company 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherT.H.E. Hi-Story Press LTD
ISBN-139780752400389
eBay Product ID (ePID)87195293
Product Key Features
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameGloster Aircraft Company: Images of England
Publication Year2009
SubjectBusiness
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhotography
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height240 mm
Item Weight380 g
Item Width172 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
TopicAircraft
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- 08 Apr, 2023
Lightweight with great pictures.
It was good read realy enjoyed it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 11 Feb, 2021
Gloster's contribution
Super archive photosVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 30 Mar, 2022
Excellent
If you want to know about Gloucestershire's aviation heritage - this is a mustVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 24 Jun, 2016
Good value and servive
Good value and serviceVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
