Passengers, Parcels and Panthers: The Story of Our Working Aircraft.
first edition
1955 · London
by Taylore, John W. R.
London: Dennis Dobson Limited, MCMLV (1955). First Edition. Octavo, brown boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 159 pp. Bookplate; otherwise, Fine; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: Fifty million people fly each year on regular aircraft services: but that is only part of the story of flying today. The freight sheds of our airports contain a vast assortment of cargoes -- everything from beans to bullion and bulldozers. A visit to the animal reception sheds at any large airport might be even more surprising, for the air travellers who receive food, shelter and medical attention in these places include elephants, panthers, cobras, and lmost every other animal except the giraffe, whose neck was not made to fit into an aeroplane. Passengers, parcels and panthers -- a queer mixture; but even stranger cargoes are carried. This book takes the reader behind the scenes at airporsts, military airfields, factories, and everywhere that aircraft fly throughout the world. For the first ime in any book, a complete picture is given of the work being done by aviation today -- work which is affecting the lives of every one of us more and more, and which in time may bring peace and properity to the whole world as a prelude to the greatest adventure of all time -- flight through space to the moon and planets. (Inventory #: 60983bd)