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Derek N. James - Gloster Aircraft Company: Images of England - 9780752400389 - V9780752400389
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Gloster Aircraft Company: Images of England

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Description for Gloster Aircraft Company: Images of England Paperback. Gloster Aircraft Company, with its forebears H H Martyn & Company and Gloucestershire Aircraft Company (GAC), produced some 10,000 aeroplanes between 1917 and 1963. It also provided employment for countless thousands of local people. This title portrays some of those people who worked 'up at the 'drome for GAC' and the works of their hands. Series: Archive Photographs. Num Pages: 160 pages, 200ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JWMV; WGM; WQH; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 11. Weight in Grams: 380.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Archive Photographs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752400389
SKU
V9780752400389
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99-5

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