Unusual Pre-war(?) Book, Pease help, Any info greatly appreciated.

Here’s some pics of the other enginering book 🙂

Copies for sale (and other related stuff) here on ABE.

It came with an accompanying tome covering all aspects of aero maintainance, from rigging wings, carving props sheet metal working, it also goes into great detail on extremely complicated subjects such as bristol sleeve valve timing gear, and hobson 3 phase automatic carb and boost control fitted to RR units, i had no idea the the two were conected in any way. Thanks 🙂

Will try to post pics of these later 🙂

Newnes

This is part of a larger work entitaled “Aero Engineering” published by “Newnes” during the pre-war period. It was released in several versions but basically 3 vols,Principles and construction, maintainance etc etc. Now the vol you have is a continuation vol with “Data sheets” and is an annex to the main work. This main work is very useful to anyone contemplating maintaining or restoring an aeroplane of such vintage as it is packed with information.— great bedtime reading and even on the contemplative bowl it makes for a fine read.

Hugs and kisses

I can’t help with identifying what it is but both the Spitfire and Lysander pictures are of the prototypes, both of which first flew in 1936. IIRC, the Spitfire entered squadron service in 1938 so 1937 for the book seems likely.