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Author : Richard Lines,Leif Hellström
Publisher : P E I International
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : IND:30000043432495
Author : Kenneth D. Brown
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1852851368
At its height British toymaking was a significant industry, with famous names such as Britains and Meccano known throughout the world. While in essence a specialised form of small-scale engineering, its products and market have always been unique, reflecting the current priorities of both parents and children. Yet, while individual toys and marques have been catalogued extensively, no previous history of toymaking as a whole exists. The British Toy Business provides a fascinating example of the development of a specific industry. Many early early toys were home-made. From the eighteenth century, with its growing recognition of children as something other than small adults, date the beginnings of specialised toys, usually produced by small workshops and sold by street-sellers. The nineteenth century, with its industrial growth and middle-class prosperity, saw an expansion of toymaking. The 1960s and 1970s were the most successful years of British toymaking, with companies like Lesney making record profits. Yet British toy makers failed to solve a number of fundamental problems. Following an unexpected sudden downturn in sales at a time of high interest rates, the major names in British toy making, Lesney, Airfix, Mettoy and Dunbee Combex Marx, all collapsed between 1979 and 1985, leaving the business to be dominated largely by importers.
Author : Kenneth D. Brown
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781526793188
The toy industry and its close relationship with children's artefacts and equipment, made a huge contribution British ascendancy in light industry, after decline of heavy industry. Light industry was a pivotal theme in British economic history and toy-making and sales in internationals markets was a vital ingredient in Britain's reputation as the 'workshop of the world'. It flourished from the Great Exhibition of 1951 - in competition with German and French toy industries - through the 20th century and the great depression of 1929, to postwar commercial ascendancy in consumer goods. Decline began in face of US and Asian competition.and with Britain's post-war economic problems; and, the nature of family business contributed, with the passing of generations and loss of drive and tenacity. It is a family business story of the Lines Brothers Ltd, the world's largest manufacturer of children's toys with the household name of Triang, with model railways, Minic and Spot-on toy cars, soft toys, 1918-29 Pedigree prams, dolls' houses, Cindy dolls. It is a serious economic, industrial and business, history, full of personality and rivalry from supreme Victorian entrepreneurship to modern international decline, but a social and cultural story intimately linked history of childhood.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015317659
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117845151
Author : Vic Ernest Smeed
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : 0706409884
Author : Edgar F. Raines
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Aerial observation (Military science)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Peter Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : 0951058967
Author : Bryan Philpott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : 0850592372
Author : Franklin D. Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Autogiros
ISBN : OCLC:807658596
Author : Steve Davies
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1846033780
From the late 1960s until the end of the Cold War, the United States Air Force acquired and flew Russian-made MiG jets, culminating in a secret squadron dedicated to exposing American fighter pilots to enemy technology and tactics. Red Eagles tells the story of this squadron from the first tests of MiGs following the Vietnam War when the USAF had been woefully under-prepared in aerial combat. These initial flights would develop into the "black" or classified program known internally as Constant Peg. At a secret air base in Nevada, ace American fighter pilots were presented with a range of differnet MiG jets with a simple remit: to expose "the threat" to as many of their brethern as possible. Maintaining and flying these "assets" without without spare parts or manuals was an almost impossible task, putting those flying the MiGs in mortal danger on every flight. Despite these challenges, in all more than 5,900 American aircrews would train against America's secret MiGs, giving them the eskills they needed to face the enemy in real combat situations. For the first time, this book tells the story of Constant Peg and the 4477th Red Eagles Squadron in the words of the men who made it possible.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Energy conservation
ISBN : UVA:X000849543
Author : Gregory Bateson
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 1572734345
A re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. It summarizes Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment.
Author : Gabriel Moshenska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351345507
How do children cope when their world is transformed by war? This book draws on memory narratives to construct an historical anthropology of childhood in Second World Britain, focusing on objects and spaces such as gas masks, air raid shelters and bombed-out buildings. In their struggles to cope with the fears and upheavals of wartime, with families divided and familiar landscapes lost or transformed, children reimagined and reshaped these material traces of conflict into toys, treasures and playgrounds. This study of the material worlds of wartime childhood offers a unique viewpoint into an extraordinary period in history with powerful resonances across global conflicts into the present day.
Author : Frank N. Schubert
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0160429544
CMH Publication 70-30. Edited by Frank N. Schubert and TheresaL. Kraus. Discusses the United States Army's role in the Persian Gulf War from August 1990 to February 1991. Shows the various strands that came together to produce the army of the 1990s and how that army in turn performed under fire and in the glare of world attention. Retains a sense of immediacy in its approach. Contains maps which were carefully researched and compiled as original documents in their own right. Includes an index.