Titel
LION RAMPANT and WINGED / A History of Scottish Aviation
Schrijver
Robertson, Alan
Taal
Engels
ISBN
9780951112304
Uitgever
Alan Robertson 1986
Prijs
€ 5,00
Bijzonderheden
Paperback; 269pp; onderaan de rug is licht beschadigd (zie foto) verder is het boek in nieuwstaat
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Preface
Half a century after its foundation is perhaps the ideal vantage point from which to review a company's history and particularly so in the present case, as there are many who can still recall at first hand the exciting new business of aviation to which they were at tracted
as young people in the 1930's. Now in 1986, which has been
designated Industry Year, it is particularly appropriate to recollect the achievements of the intervening years and contribution made by a comparatively small organisation not simply to the life of its local community but on the much wider stage of an international industry.
Researching this story has, however, bee4n problematic since, inevitably in a business organisation, much of what will be tomorrow's history is today 's waste-paper and is treated accordingly. But if documented archive materials are sparse, personal memory has proved to be a rich source and one of the objects of writing this history
has been to take the opportunity while it is still possible to do so, of obtaining and recording some of the personal insights and recollections of those who have been closely associated with the aircraft industry at Prestwick from its earliest days.
It may seem curious therefore that this account does not mention more people by name. This has been a conscious decision. Inevitably some individuals are identified, either because their role in the company placed them centre stage or because they happened to be involved in events which seemed to me at least to be particularly
significant. Some have expressed the wish that they should not be singled out for mention from among so many others who deserve it. Rightly the name of David Fowler Mcintyre occurs frequently, since from his part as co-founder in 1939 he was the driving force behind Scottish Aviation's development until his death in 1957 and, as an inspiration in the corporate memory, long beyond that. Generally,
however, individuals remain unnamed and if this means that I have done less than justice to a few, it also means that I have an least done justice to the anonymous many on whose endeavours the Company has ultimately depended in charting its course through fifty turbulent years.
There may be those who will be quick to object that it is wrong to speak of "the Company" in this way, since Scottish Aviation Limited itself dis not reach its half century and British Aerospace, into which it was merged, is not yet ten years old.
Scottish Aviation limited as such ceased to exist from 1st January 1978 but a change in legal identity is too artificial a break in the continuous fabric of the history of aviation at Prestwick, of course there has been change in more than name alone since 1978, but the years before then are and always will be part of the story of what is
now British Aerospace, Civil Aircraft Division Prestwick. Equally, while the years since then belong first and foremost to the history of British Aerospace, they also belong to the history of the predecessor company, if only because they represent a consummation of so much of what Scottish Aviation set out to achieve.
Half a century after its foundation is perhaps the ideal vantage point from which to review a company's history and particularly so in the present case, as there are many who can still recall at first hand the exciting new business of aviation to which they were at tracted
as young people in the 1930's. Now in 1986, which has been
designated Industry Year, it is particularly appropriate to recollect the achievements of the intervening years and contribution made by a comparatively small organisation not simply to the life of its local community but on the much wider stage of an international industry.
Researching this story has, however, bee4n problematic since, inevitably in a business organisation, much of what will be tomorrow's history is today 's waste-paper and is treated accordingly. But if documented archive materials are sparse, personal memory has proved to be a rich source and one of the objects of writing this history
has been to take the opportunity while it is still possible to do so, of obtaining and recording some of the personal insights and recollections of those who have been closely associated with the aircraft industry at Prestwick from its earliest days.
It may seem curious therefore that this account does not mention more people by name. This has been a conscious decision. Inevitably some individuals are identified, either because their role in the company placed them centre stage or because they happened to be involved in events which seemed to me at least to be particularly
significant. Some have expressed the wish that they should not be singled out for mention from among so many others who deserve it. Rightly the name of David Fowler Mcintyre occurs frequently, since from his part as co-founder in 1939 he was the driving force behind Scottish Aviation's development until his death in 1957 and, as an inspiration in the corporate memory, long beyond that. Generally,
however, individuals remain unnamed and if this means that I have done less than justice to a few, it also means that I have an least done justice to the anonymous many on whose endeavours the Company has ultimately depended in charting its course through fifty turbulent years.
There may be those who will be quick to object that it is wrong to speak of "the Company" in this way, since Scottish Aviation Limited itself dis not reach its half century and British Aerospace, into which it was merged, is not yet ten years old.
Scottish Aviation limited as such ceased to exist from 1st January 1978 but a change in legal identity is too artificial a break in the continuous fabric of the history of aviation at Prestwick, of course there has been change in more than name alone since 1978, but the years before then are and always will be part of the story of what is
now British Aerospace, Civil Aircraft Division Prestwick. Equally, while the years since then belong first and foremost to the history of British Aerospace, they also belong to the history of the predecessor company, if only because they represent a consummation of so much of what Scottish Aviation set out to achieve.
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