- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: The History Press LTD; First Softback Edition edition (1 Oct 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 075240038X
- ISBN-13: 978-0752400389
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.3 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 773,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A good selection of GAC aircraft photographs and some factory shots. Would have liked more photos of the people working at GAC and places like The Golf Club and Pineholt.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I like this series in general, I find they almost always provide a good photo for modelling ference of any subect covered by their title, and this no exception.
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