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102 pages - 1960 - Old
This beautiful book, illustrated like a folk tale, will tell you the story of the Bristol Aeroplane Company Limited and what it has gone through during 50 years.

Characteristics

Book cover finish Canvas finish, Hardcover ( square back binding ), Missing dust jacket
Number of pages 102
Published date 1960
Language English
Size 15 x 23 x 2 cm
Author John Pudney
Editor PUTNAM

Description

Foreword

by SIR W.R. VERDON SMITH

Chairman, The Bristol Aeroplane Company Limited

 

The Bristol Aeroplane Company Limited has this year completed its fiftieth year in aviation. In common with others whose links with flying reach back to the early days of powered flight, we have been thinking of the men whose enthusiasm, courage and resourcefulness made possible the aeronautical achievements of our Company during the half century.

 

It is to the memory of the pioneers, especially the particular men who are our own Bristol heroes, that this book is dedicated - to the founder, to the designers, pilots and engineers, to the skilled men in the workshops, and to so many of the rank and file who started from scratch and learnt as they went along.

 

Fifty years may be a short span of time measured against the whole of a nation's history, but it is long enough for a very great deal of human experience to accumulate, especially in such a swiftly changing and dramatic environment as that of aviation.

 

( ... ) The author's task was less exacting than that of the official historian. Yet it was far from easy. His brief was to pick out personalities, events and circumstances which appealed to his writer's eye. His choice is his own, with every facility we could offer to speed his pen, in this our salute to the pioneers.

 

In the years ahead our fortunes are to be combined with those of the very firms with whom Bristol pioneers were in keenest competition, but this combination of ability and strength affords us and succeding generations the prospect of another half - century of work in aviation just as exhilarating, just as demanding.

 

FILTON HOUSE, BRISTOL

February 1960

À PROPOS DE CET AUTEUR
John Pudney

John Sleigh Pudney ( January 19th, 1909 - November 10th, 1977 ) was born at Langley Marish ( Berkshire, England ). 


He was educated at Gresham's School in Holt ( Norfolk, England ). In 1925, he left school at the age of 16, and spent several years working as an estate agent and studying to become a surveyor. However, he began contributing articles to the News Chronicle at the same time, also writing short stories and channelling his love of the countryside into verse. His first published collection of verse, Spring Encounter, came out in 1933. 


John Pudney also wrote for The Listener, and worked as a producer at the BBC. His first novel, Jacobson's Ladder, describing literary and criminal life in 1930's Soho, appeared in 1938. 


In 1940, he was commissioned into the R.A.F. as an Intelligence Officer and as a member of the Air Ministry's Creative Writers Unit ( a non - combatant role ). He also served as Squadron Intelligence Officer at R.A.F. St. Eval ( Cornwall, England ). John Pudney published several collections of poetry during the war, including Dispersal Point ( 1942 ) and South of Forty ( 1943, describing the author's experiences in North Africa ). 


After the war, he continued to write and worked as a journalist and editor. He was the book critic for The Daily Express from 1945 and with the News Review from 1948 to 1950. He then shifted into publishing, as a Director and Literary Adviser to Evans Brothers, Ltd ( 1950 - 1953 ) and Putnam & Co Ltd ( 1953 - 1963 ). 


Most significantly while at Evans, John Pudney commissioned the Australian fighter pilot and prisoner of war Paul Brickhill ( 1916 - 1991 ) to come to Great Britain and write The Great Escape, which Evans published in 1950 attracting much attention. He had previously suggested to the Air Historical Branch of the British Air Ministry that Paul Brickhill should be considered as the author of a history of No. 617 Squadron. After the success of The Great Escape, this was also published by Evans as The Dam Busters ( 1951 ). It sold over one million copies in its first 50 years. 


John Pudney's prolific work included poetry, novels, short stories, books for children, autobiographies and non fictions as well. However, poetry remained the most important to him. His later work, from the collection Spill Out ( 1967 ) onward, took on a more ironic stance but was still vernacular rather than academic, a period reflected in his second Selected Poems collection of 1973. His final two poems appeared in the Times Literary Supplement a few days after his death. 


( source : Wikipedia )

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