THE EAGLE BOOK OF CUTAWAYS
Written by L. Ashwell Wood, Denis Gifford
Published by Webb & Bower
in 1988
ISBN: 0863502857
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THE EAGLE BOOK OF CUTAWAYS
Written by L. Ashwell Wood, Denis Gifford.
Stock no. 1830846
1st.
1988.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The first book to bring together a selection of the best of the painstakingly accurate technical drawings that ran across the centre spreads of the Eagle comic for more than a decade. Oblong format. Red boards, black title to spine and vignette to front. Colour illustrations. 95 pages. ISBN: 0863502857. Light rubbing to lower board edges. Minor foxing and browning to top edge of text block. Contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is foxed to verso (not visible to front), has a 2" closed tear to lower edge of front panel repaired to verso with clear tape, lightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- LAND
- A Royal Car: The Daimler Straight Eight: 8 May 1953
- The British Car of 1953: 23 October 1953
- The Frisky: The Meadows Miniature Car: 27 December 1957
- The Last of Londons Trams and Trolleybuses: 9 September 1961
- The Routemaster: The World's Most Up-to-Date Bus: 22nd June 1952
- Britain's Latest Fire-Engines: The AEC Merryweather: 18 July 1952
- Bluebird Seven:
- Donald Campbells' Jet-engined Racing Car: 3 September 1960
- Britain's 52-ton Super Tank: The Centurion: 9 January 1953
- Britain's First Streamlined Express: The Silver Link: 9 January 1960
- The "Coronation Scot" Express: 12 December 1959
- Battle of Britain Class Locomotive: 14 November 1959
- The World's Longest Non-Stop Train: The Elizabethan: 14 August 1953
- The New Gas Turbine-Electric Locomotive: the 18000: 14 April 1950
- The Inter-City Diesel Railcar: 14 April 1958
- Amazing Underground Flying and Crossover Junctions: 13 October 1950
- SEA
- The New 'Empress of Britain': 17 June 1955
- The Antarctic Ship 'Tottan': 7 February 1959
- The Latest Unsinkable Motor Lifeboat: 6 October 1950
- Fibre-Glass Thames Police Launch: 1 November 1958
- The "Crusader": John Cobb's Jet Speedboat: 7 November 1952
- The Hovercraft Air-Cushion Machine: The Saunders-Roe SR-N1: 24 October 1959
- HMS "Eagle": The New Wonder Aircraft Carrier: 10 April 1952
- World's Fastest Torpedo Boat: The Brave Borderer: 26 March 1960
- Crossing the Atlantic Underwater: The A Class Andrew Submarine: 6 November 1953
- AIR
- The First Atlantic Flight: The Vickers Vimy Biplane: 21 November 1959
- A Famous Airliner of the Past: The Handley Page 42: 31 December 1960
- A Typical British Flying Boat: The Short Solent: 4 August 1950
- The First Four-Jet Airliner in the World: The De Haviland Comet: 5 May 1950
- The New "Britannia": The Bristol Britannia: 12 December 1952
- A Superb New Airliner: The Vickers VC-10: 2 July 1960
- TWISS-SSH-1132 Miles and Hour: The Fairey Delta 2: 27 April 1956
- The Flaming Pencil: The Bristol 188: 4 June 1960
- The Battle of Britain Aircraft: The Spitfire and the Hurricane:12 September 1952
- The submarine-Hunting "Seamew": 13 April 1946
- The Famous "Blenheim" Fighter-Bomber: The Bristol Blenheim: 28 May 1960
- The Duke's Helicopter: The Westland Sikorsky S-55: 17 July 1953
- One of the World's Fastest Fighters: The Hawker Hunter F1: 30 October 1953
- TOMORROW
- Britain's Latest Atomic Research Station: Dounreay: 18 October 1957
- The Atomic Submarine: 23 May 1952
- The Atomic Locomotive: 1 August 1952
- The Atomic Powered Aircraft Carrier: 13 April 1954
- A 200 MPH Overhead Monorail Car: 14 January 1955
- A Flying Wing Jet Airliner of the Future: 5 April 1951
- Breaking the Space Barrier: Space Satellites: 23 September 1955
- The Anastasia: Dan Dare's Spaceship: 7 February 1958
- FLASHBACK: THE FIFTIES
- The Years of Progress: 1950-1960: 'Eagle' is Ten: 16 April 1960