Born of adversity : Britain's airlines 1919-1963 / by Guy Halford-Macleod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halford-MacLeod, Guy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Airlines--Great Britain--History.

Airlines.

History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Halford-MacLeod, Guy (donor)

Physical Description:

208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Stroud : Amberley, 2014.

Summary:

What was it like to fly on British airliners before the Second World War? And why did you have to change planes so often? And why did the Conservatives nationalise the airlines, and Labour open up civil aviation for free enterprise? Born of Adversity looks at the paradoxes of aviation policy from the very beginning as it tells the story of Britain's airlines, the challenges they faced, the opportunities they found, who helped them fly, and who got in the way. An intriguing blend of heroic endeavour and epic mismanagement, the history of British civil aviation reflects our nation's strengths and weaknesses and, above all, the muddle in our politics and policies. This book helps steer you through them, as it tells of Imperial Airways, the wartime experiences of BOAC and the small internal airlines, the creation of BEA after the war, and the short-lived British South American Airways, the importance of aircraft manufacturers like Avro and de Havilland, the Berlin Airlift, and the indomitable rise of the private airlines, and their champions like Freddie Laker and Harold Bamberg, as they forced their way centre stage to share the limelight with the government owned corporations. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Managing Somehow to Muddle Through 9

Chapter 2 1936 to 1939 Ominous Skies 25

Chapter 3 1939 to 1945 Civilians in Wartime 41

Chapter 4 1946 to 1948 Meddle and Muddle 61

Chapter 5 1948 to 1951 Along the Corridor, Turning the Corner 77

Chapter 6 1951 to 1959 Basking in the Pale Sunshine of Conservative Government 123

Chapter 7 1959 to 1963 A New Charter for British Civil Aviation? 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781848689930

1848689934

OCLC:

863174050