Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Since 1913

E-55: Putnam Publishing Group. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Putnam. 1973. 390 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present (foxing present). Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A comprehensive hitory of the Armstrong Whitworth company with a lot of behind-the-scenes information about the aircraft of this historic company, especially those projects, which for one reason or another, never saw completion. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft was established as the Aerial Department of the Sir W. G Armstrong Whitworth & Company engineering group in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1912, and from c. 1914 to 1917 employed the Dutch aircraft designer Frederick Koolhoven (hence the "F. K." models). E-55; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .