Memories of the Lancashire Aircraft Industry
Details:
- Author(s) Freethy, Ron
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2009
- Pages 176pp; illus
- Publisher Countryside Books
- Place Published Newbury
Topics:
- Name Oral history
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Covers the history of aircraft production in Lancashire from the very early to the end of the 20th century - 'written by and for Lancashire folk'. Deals, inter alia, with A V Roe and AVRO and their early works at Manchester, Newton Heath and Lake Windermere; English Electric and their works at Samlesbury, near Preston; Rolls-Royce; etc. Draws on interviews with local workers or descendants of workers