Special collection MC-19
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Contains 229 Results:
Rolls-Royce: Hives’ Turbulent Barons (Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Historical Series #20), 1992, 1992
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 202, Call No.: HD 9710 .G72 H37 1992
Identifier: 20171015
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Series: Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Historical Series #20.NB: The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust and the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation are closely related. From "Rolls-Royce: The Pursuit of Excellence" (1984): "Both organisations share the history of the early days and work closely in harmony. This Historical Series of books was started by the Trust and...
Dates:
Copyright: 1992; Publication: 1992
Fedden: The Life of Sir Roy Fedden (Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Historical Series #26), 1998, 1998
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 203, Call No.: TL 540 .F35 G86 1998
Identifier: 20171017
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Series: Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Historical Series #26.NB: The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust and the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation are closely related. From "Rolls-Royce: The Pursuit of Excellence" (1984): "Both organisations share the history of the early days and work closely in harmony. This Historical Series of books was started by the Trust and...
Dates:
Publication: 1998; Copyright: 1998
There's Something In The Air [Second Printing], 1943, 1943-06
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 204, Call No.: D 786 .B3 1943
Identifier: 20061124
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Informational).
Purpose: Informational.
Authority: Author Expertise.
Scope: This memoir, writtien by Flying Officer H. E. Bates of the Royal Air Force, relates his experiences flying during World War II. He originally wrote this book under the pseudonym "Flying Officer X," likely so it couldn't be used against him if he was shot down and captured.
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Dates:
Copyright: 1943; Publication: 1943-06
The Knife and Fork Man: The Life and Work of Charles Benjamin Redrup, 2006, 2007
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 205, Call No.: TA 140 .R43 F35 2007
Identifier: 20160221
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope: Biography of Sir Charles Redrup, a pioneer of British automobile and aeronautical engines, written by Professor Bill Fairney, "an expert in his field, has carried out an immense amount of research on a story of inventiveness and persistence."Contents (from the Foreword): "This book has everything that...
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Copyright: 2006; Publication: 2007
Memories and Machines: The Pattern of My Life, 1968, 1990
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 206, Call No.: TJ 140 .R53 A3 1990
Identifier: 20123044
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from the Foreword): "This book recounts the episodes that the author considers most significant both as regards his own full life and the technical developments which he has seen and influenced. It is of interest that the year of his birth (1885) was also the birth of the first real motor cars, for in that year both Daimler and Benz in...
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Publication: 1968; Issued: 1990
I Kept No Diary: 60 Years with Marine Diesels, Automobile and Aero Engines, 1978, 1978
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 207, Call No.: TL 540 .B353 A34
Identifier: 20123043
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from the Preface): "This autobiography is not strictly a technical treatise, though certain aspects of my work might be of historical interest to those who have been similarly involved. I have for more than sixty years been engaged in the development and running problems of the internal combustion piston engine (marine diesels, automobile and aero engines)....
Dates:
Copyright: 1978; Publication: 1978
Parks College: Legacy of an Aviation Pioneer, 1990, 1990
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 208, Call No.: TL 560.2 .P37 F33 1990
Identifier: 20060304
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from the Prologue): "Parks College is unique among the world's educational institutions. Its founder, Oliver L. Parks, was one of the pioneer aviators with the vision to see the need to build the College and to nurture it in time of peace and war. He proved to be even more visionary when he gave the school to Saint Louis University, thereby making it part of...
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Copyright: 1990; Publication: 1990
Jet: The Story of a Pioneer, 1953, 1953
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 209, Call No.: TL 540 .W48 A3 1953
Identifier: 20171002
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from the Preface): "This book is not an autobiography. It is primarily the history I of my association with the development of the turbo-jet engine in Great Britain. I have included a very brief account of my life prior to my practical work on the turbo-jet engine, in order that the reader may have some idea of the nature of the soil in which the seed of an...
Dates:
Copyright: 1953; Publication: 1953
Jet: The Story of a Pioneer
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 210, Call No.: TL 540 .W48 A3 1954
Identifier: 20180008
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from the Preface): "This book is not an autobiography. It is primarily the history I of my association with the development of the turbo-jet engine in Great Britain. I have included a very brief account of my life prior to my practical work on the turbo-jet engine, in order that the reader may have some idea of the nature of the soil in which the seed of an...
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Publication: 1954
Whittle: The True Story, 1987, 1987
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 211, Call No.: TL 540 .W48 G65 1987
Identifier: 20123036
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.NB: Inside cover are three articles from 1981, 1996 and 1999 about Frank Whittle. Materials moved to folder in series 7 Subseries B (ID #20123036.01)Scope: Semi-autobiography of Sir Frank Whittle.Preface: "This is the human and dramatic story of a very great Englishman.By creating and giving birth to the turbojet, Sir Frank Whittle became one...
Dates:
Copyright: 1987; Publication: 1987