Industrial History Books by Charles E. MacKay
2 titles · published 2013 to 2021
Company histories: the Morris Furniture Company of Glasgow, from furnishing the Queen Mary to Highball casings, Mosquito plywood and Cierva rotor blades, and the pioneering all-metal aircraft of Adolf Rohrbach, whose stressed-skin construction influenced Boeing, Douglas and Northrop.
Shavings for Breakfast by Charles E. MacKay is a history of the Morris Furniture Company, Glasgow, covering Queen Mary furnishing and the Highball bomb.
200 pages · 15 August 2013£12.89Rohrbach Metal Aeroplanes by Charles E. MacKay: a history of the Roland airliner and stressed-skin construction, influencing Boeing, Douglas and Northrop.
136 pages · 21 June 2021£12.89
About this collection
These two industrial histories examine engineering and manufacturing enterprises whose work bridged civil craftsmanship and wartime aviation production. Shavings for Breakfast: The History of the Morris Furniture Company, Glasgow (ISBN 9780957344310) traces Neil Morris and the Glasgow cabinetmakers who outfitted the Clyde luxury liners RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth before turning their woodworking plant during the Second World War to de Havilland Mosquito structural components, glider parts, helicopter rotor blades for the Bristol Sycamore and Bristol 192, and 77 casings for the Highball bouncing bomb intended for 618 Squadron, followed by post-war furniture including the Cumbrae range. Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau GmbH: Adolf Rohrbach's Metal Aeroplanes (ISBN 9781838056728) documents the German aeronautical engineer Adolf Rohrbach, whose stressed-skin duralumin box-spar wing construction in Berlin and Copenhagen influenced William Beardmore & Co. at Dalmuir (building the Ro IV Inverness flying boat and the Beardmore Inflexible), Mitsubishi in Japan, and modern metal airliner design.
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