Derek Spurgeon (2 results)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A Spectrum Book. viii, 120 pp. Twentieth Century Interpretations. LCC: 6814471 Good condition; on covers: light touches of wear on corners and on extremities of spine; previous owner's name on inside front cover; very light yellowing on inside covers and on adjoining pages.

Paperback. First Impression. Octavo, [20cm/8.25inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 82, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Essentially an annotated and complete list of every Convair-bulit transport from the Second World War untl August 1968. The Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, whose name was in the course of time changed to Convair, was an American aircraft, rocket, and spacecraft company for the design, development, and manufacturing of aerospace products. It existed as a company from 1943 until 1994, although the Consolidated Aircraft company existed before that, and Consolidated produced important aircraft in the early years of World War II, especially the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber and the PBY Catalina seaplane for the U.S. Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the British flying forces, and others. The Catalina remained in production through May 1945, and more than 4,000 were built. What was soon to be called "Convair" (first unofficially, and then officially), was created in 1943 by the merger of the Consolidated Aircraft Company and the Vultee Aircraft Company. This merger produced a large airplane company, ranked fourth among United States corporations by value of wartime production contracts, higher than the giants like Douglas Aircraft, Boeing, and Lockheed.[1] Convair always had most of its research, design, and manufacturing operations in San Diego County of Southern California, and nearby counties, though other locations were involved as well. Octavo, [2cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. , indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.