Nevil Shute (On the Beach, A Town Called Alice, etc) worked with Burney on the R100, and then later, on weaponry during WWII.
Shute's autobiography has a great deal of detail on the R100, as well as the competing, government sponsored R101. One of them crashed with multiple fatalities...
That's one sexy automobile. It looks menacing and very fast just sitting there sawed in half. ___________
Nevil Shute's novel "Round the Bend" (1951) tells, kind of sidelongly, a story of an aircraft mechanic who preaches the spiritual value of good workshop practices, eventually (and without having any grand plan to do so) establishing a Zenlike quasireligion with devoted adherents in every hangar throughout Arabia and Asia. I think it's his best book by a long ways; great reading for the conscientious grease monkey.
I don't know that title, but "Trustee from the toolroom" is a good read. https://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2012/06/good-reads-trustee-from-toolroom.html
Nevil Shute (On the Beach, A Town Called Alice, etc) worked with Burney on the R100, and then later, on weaponry during WWII.
ReplyDeleteShute's autobiography has a great deal of detail on the R100, as well as the competing, government sponsored R101. One of them crashed with multiple fatalities...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevil_Shute
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That's one sexy automobile. It looks menacing and very fast just sitting there sawed in half.
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Nevil Shute's novel "Round the Bend" (1951) tells, kind of sidelongly, a story of an aircraft mechanic who preaches the spiritual value of good workshop practices, eventually (and without having any grand plan to do so) establishing a Zenlike quasireligion with devoted adherents in every hangar throughout Arabia and Asia. I think it's his best book by a long ways; great reading for the conscientious grease monkey.
Thanks, rats. That's going on my list
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I don't know that title, but "Trustee from the toolroom" is a good read. https://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2012/06/good-reads-trustee-from-toolroom.html
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, that one's a beaut. Thanks, G, I'd forgotten about it.
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