Davies, R.E.G. (Author) - Machat, Mike (Illustrations)
This excellently illustrated book is a rare compilation of Imperial Airways' and the other predecessors to British Airways history. You will find a well selected collection of information and spectacular maps of the old routes flown in the past, never shown in any other publication. Also included are rare photos of the aircraft of the past together with side view illustrations of selected aircraft.
Highly recommended!
Many books have been written about the early history of the British airlines, from their infancy through their maturity and adulthood. In the case of British Airways, its ancestoral infancy and adolescence took many forms, and this is possibly the first book that follows the some-times complex relationships that led, first, to the formation of Imperial Airways, and, later, to the formation of British Airways, that is, the pre-war one that merged with Imperial to form B.O.A.C. in 1939.
The text is illustrated with profile drawings of all the main types, together with the elegant paintings of lan Marshall and Edmund Miller. The remote developments, from a single cross-channel flight to Paris in 1919 to an Empire-embracing network in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, are shown by the author's maps. There are photographs at every stage, to emphasize the progress made from open-cockpit single-engined planes (converted from light bombers of the Great War of 1914-18) to the elegant flying boats that were able to add modernity to the romance and adventure that characterized air transport during the 1920s and 1930s.
Thanks to the accurate technical support of veteran author-historian John Stroud, the fleets of every type are tabulated; and author/pilot/publisher Mike Machat has supervised the artwork.
Altogether, for all enthusiasts of airlines and air transport history, The Imperial Years should be a pleasure to peruse and also to serve as a reliable reference source for any library bookshelf.
Original cloth binding with dust jacket, large format
108 Seiten / pages
many photos, illustrations and maps
book very good condition, dustjacket good condition
McLean, Virginia, USA - 2005 - Paladwr Press
Art.Nr. 16042
