I am sure many of the elder brethren remember ‘The book of Westland Aircraft’ published by harborugh Press at the end of WW2, along with their companion volumes; Bristol and Miles, they represented an all time high as references
Recently, I came across an edition that included the Welkin, I had been told that it existed but had never seen one, it would have been nice to have gone one further to complete ‘The Book of Westland Fixed-Wing Aircraft.
I often felt that David Mondey’s book; Planemakers 2, Westland, would have been so much better if the publisher, Janes had let him include 3-view drawings. something he too would have liked to do.
Offerred for everyones general interest
By: Judwin - 21st February 2013 at 06:57
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SCARCE-ORI…item53f4b0aaa6
Most interesting, The item up for sale is not a ‘Sales’ Brochure so much as a major company statement produced in-house after the end of WW1.
I don’t know how many copies, but I suspect no more than twenty.
Every director had one and a select few others.
There is one in the Westland Archive (Arthur Davenport’s copy) which has also been digitised, and I have seen Arthur Bruce’s copy which somehow went missing.
That had a couple of interesting pencilled notes quoting the price of each aircraft to the nearest penny. the most expensive was the Vimy at less than £4,500. (Five copies of the book at the eBay asking price!)
By: TonyT - 20th February 2013 at 20:59
Thanks for that Judwin, totally agree the 3d images add to the book, incidentally, I saw this on evilbay at a mindblowing price yesterday
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