Not Much of An Engineer by Sir Stanley Hooker assisted by Bill Gunston soon to be presented for sale on the wonderful BookLovers of Bath web site!
Published: Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 1984, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Graphs; Portrait to the frontispiece;
From the cover: Stanley Hooker joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 and tugged a rather reluctant company into the jet age, determined to give real competition to Rolls-Royce. So successful was he that in 1966 Rolls-Royce decided the best thing to do was to spend 63. 6 million pounds and buy its rival. By this time there was scarcely a single modern British aero-engine for which Hooker had not been responsible.
Introduction by: Lord Keith of Castleacre
Very Good in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper, which is sunned at the spine, with a nick to the top corner of the upper panel. Text complete, clean and tight.
Grey boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 255 pages. Index. 9″ x 6″.
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