THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS CLUB. Vol.1 No.1 to Vol.2 No.4, September 1941 to January 1943, complete bound volume

Published by Royal Observer Corps Club, Chobham, Surrey, 1941

About this Item

The complete run: Volume 1, nos 1-12, and volume 2 nos. 1-4; 4to (22 x 27 cms); 11, 32, 438, 8 pages, plus all front and back covers; very well illustrated throughout with photos, silhouettes, cartoons y Sessions and others, charts, graphs, etc., including 3 full-page colour plates; hardback: navy blue cloth, with title to spine in gilt; there is a tiny amount of wear to top corners of cover, and a little very light foxing to endpapers and first and last blanks, but otherwise this is a fine, clean, complete copy. The Observer Corp Club was formed from the Hearkers Club n January 1941, and renamed the Royal Observer Corps Club in April of that year. The club took over aircraft recognition training, producing recognition sheets and cards for the epidiascope, and began producing its own magazine, this journal, from September 1941. If photographs were not available for any aircraft then the model makers produced them, so photographs could be taken of them for the journal. By late 1942 there were 191 branches of the club, and members were also lecturing the Army, Air Force, Navy, Home Guard, Air Training Corps, and Spotters Clubs, passing on their knowledge. However, the Air Ministry did not like the idea that recognition training to such a high standard was being carried out by a civilian club, so the club was disbanded, recognition cards were stopped and the journal was told to cease production at the end of 1942. The work was to be carried on by the ROC itself, and a new publication, called Aircraft recognition - the Inter-Services Journal, was issued to members. The volume offered here is, therefore, the complete run of the Journal. It contains a large number of photographs, and numerous tests, comprising pages of either silhouettes or photos, plus articles, branch news, etc. The volume begins with an 11 page index, then issue one, the pagination beginning again with issue two, carrying through until the last full issue, the final issue being just 8 pages long, consisting of a feature on the journal's cartoonists. A very nice, complete copy of a now scarce publication. Seller Inventory # 008337

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS CLUB...

Publisher: Royal Observer Corps Club, Chobham, Surrey

Publication Date: 1941

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition