SOMEWHERE IN THE WEST COUNTRY
Written by Ken Wakefield
Published by Crecy Publishing Limited
in 1997
ISBN: 0947554653
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SOMEWHERE IN THE WEST COUNTRY
Written by Ken Wakefield.
Stock no. 2138841
1st.
1997.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The history of Bristol (Whitchurch) Airport 1930-1957. Yellow cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0947554653. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Spine slightly bumped. Wrapper is very slightly faded to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE A Far Sighted Move (1927-1930)
- CHAPTER TWO The Early Thirties (1931-1934)
- CHAPTER THREE The Mid Thirties (1935-1936)
- CHAPTER FOUR The Late Thirties (1937-1939)
- CHAPTER FIVE The Early War Years (1940-1942)
- CHAPTER SIX Victory in Europe (1943-1945)
- CHAPTER SEVEN The Post War Years (1946-1957
- APPENDICES:
- I. The Bristol & Wessex Aeroplane Club - Aircraft Operated, 1930-1939
- II. Western Airways - Aircraft Operated, 1930-1939
- III. No. 33 Elementary & Reserve Flying Training School - Aircraft Operated, 1938-1939
- IV. Imperial Airways & British Airways - Aircraft Based at Whitchurch, September 1939
- V. No. 2 Ferry Pool, Air Transport Auxiliary - Taxi Aircraft, 1940-1945
- VI. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines - Aircraft Based at Whitchurch, June 1940
- VII. No. 1 Line, BOAC - Aircraft Based at Whitchurch, 31 March 1945
- VIII. Airways Aero Club - Aircraft Based at Whitchurch, 1949-1952
- IX. Cambrian Air Services/ Cambrian Airways - Aircraft Operating Services from Whitchurch, 1953-1957
- INDEX