The British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation write by Takeshi Sakade. This book was released on 2021-12-09. The British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went "from Empire to Europe" and argues rather that, following the Second World War, the key relationship was in fact trans-Atlantic. There is a commonly accepted belief that, during the twentieth century, British manufacturing declined irreparably, that Britain lost its industrial hegemony. But this is too simplistic. In fact, in the decades after 1945, Britain staked out a new role for itself as a key participant in a US-led process of globalisation. Far from becoming merely a European player, the UK actually managed to preserve a key share in a global market, and the British defence industry was, to a large extent, successfully rehabilitated. Sakade returns to the original scholarly parameters of the decline controversy, and especially questions around post-war decline in the fields of high technology and the national defence industrial base. Using the case of the strategically critical military and civil aircraft industry, he argues that British industry remained relatively robust. A valuable read for historians of British aviation and more widely of 20th century British Industry.
Empire of the Clouds
Empire of the Clouds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire of the Clouds write by James Hamilton-Paterson. This book was released on 2010-10-07. Empire of the Clouds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built and the Lightning, which could zoom ten miles above the clouds in a couple of minutes and whose pilots rated flying it as better than sex. How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? What became of the great industry of de Havilland or Handley Page? And what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots were the rock stars of the age? James Hamilton-Paterson captures that season of glory in a compelling book that fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline - its loss of self confidence and power. It is the story of great and charismatic machines and the men who flew them: heroes such as Bill Waterton, Neville Duke, John Derry and Bill Beaumont who took inconceivable risks, so that we could fly without a second thought.
Industry and Air Power
Industry and Air Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Industry and Air Power write by Sebastian Ritchie. This book was released on 1997. Industry and Air Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author examines the relationship between industry and the state during the period immediately before the Second World War when increasing tension resulted in large government contracts.
Government and British Civil Aerospace
Government and British Civil Aerospace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Government and British Civil Aerospace write by Keith Hayward. This book was released on 1983. Government and British Civil Aerospace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Industry and Air Power
Industry and Air Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Industry and Air Power write by Noel Sebastian Ritchie. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Industry and Air Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author begins with a general survey of British aircraft manufacturing in the inter-war period. Policy, production, finance and contracts are examined, and the final chapter is concerned with the mobilization of the aircraft industry in 1939, and the emergency measures of 1940.
