[modeleng] Re: any body alive
- From: "Barrie Purslow" <bpduo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:23:48 -0000
Neville Shute Norway was also chief mathematician on the R100. He was
directly responsible to Barnes Wallis. He flew on the R100 on its maiden
crossing of the atlantic and gives a fascinating account of the flight in
his autobiography " Slide Rule". He also gives an insight into the contrast
between the privately funded R100 and the government sponsored R101. Anybody
who believes in socialism should be made to read it.
Barrie
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From: "Tim" <the_viffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:15 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: any body alive
>I used to drink with Nevil Shute's best mate, Russel Foreman, who was also
>a novelist and a fine model engineer. I believe it was he who found Shute
>dead. He had some very interesting stories. Oh and he told me (and also
>gave me an ME reference which makes it perfectly clear) the The Trustee was
>based on Edgar Westbury not LBSC
>
> Slide Rule is a most interesting book for us engineering chaps too.> From:
> cbrumbelow@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [modeleng]
> Re: any body alive> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:28:02 +0000> > Yes, Tim, I
> see I'm not the only oldie in the group. Mr. Shute also wrote "Trustee
> from the Tool Room" -- another great book; one with special appeal to
> hobby machinists. > > http://www.nevilshute.org/biblio.php> > Charles>
> > -------------- Original message ----------------------> From: Tim
> <the_viffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>> > > He was writing, I think, of the Nevil Shute
> book On The Beach about the > > aftermath of a nuclear war. A very
> poignant story from a great novelist.
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