Taking Off. Memories of de Havilland at Hatfield
Details:
- Author(s) Marris, Phil (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2016
- Pages 94pp; illus
- Publisher Hatfield Local History Society
- Place Published Hatfield
Topics:
- Name Oral history
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
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Library:
- Name National Library of Scotland
- City Edinburgh
- County Lothian
- Country Scotland
- Postcode EH1 1EW
- Visit National Library of Scotland's website
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Notes:
Relates the history of de Havilland as told by local people associated with the Hatfield Works from the 1930s when the business opened there. Covers work experience; women at work especially 1939-45; senior personalities such as Geoffrey de Havilland junior, test pilot; first jet plane; closure of works in 1990s; etc. Based in part on Don Lawrence, The Early Days of de Havilland at Hatfield