The Marshall Story: A Century of Wheels and Wings

Marshall, Sir Arthur

ISBN 10: 1852604727 / ISBN 13: 9781852604721

Published by Patrick Stephens Limited, Somerset, England, 1994

About this Item

Stated First Edition - first printing. Inscribed and Signed by Author on Title page. Personal letter from Sir Arthur's Secretary to previous owner along with newspaper clippings of Author's demise are laid in. Foreword by Sir Peter Masefield. Book is clean and tight. Dust Jacket covered with Brodart. Previous owner book stamp on dedication page. 384 pages with index. Seller Inventory # 006072

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Marshall Story: A Century of Wheels and ...

Publisher: Patrick Stephens Limited, Somerset, England

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

This work - spanning a century of rapid change and two world wars - charts the growth of a Cambridge company from a small family garage to a massive aerospace company, which owns Cambridge Airport and has a major car-sales business. It is also the story of the entrepreneurial Marshall family and the many notable people with whom they have been involved in their pursuit of excellence. Begins in the kitchens of a Cambridge University college in 1887 where Sir Arthur's father David Marshall - a Victorian "Mr Fixit" - began work at the age of 14, then moves on to his chauffeur-driven hire car service, and later car sales and garaging for wealthy dons and undergraduates. Chronicles how young Arthur, working in the family's garage business in the 1920s, got the flying bug, and opened a flying school, which later led to the company training 20,000 RAF aircrew during World War II, establishing a large aircraft repair operation in the process. Tells how in the 1960s Marshall's designed and made the droop nose and retracting visor for Concords, later winning design authority status for the RAF,s Hercules and TriStar fleets.