A brief, Taking-Off ! Publication.

The front and back cover, plus one from inside. Inside the rear cover it says that only four photographs are Crown Copyright Reserved. As there are only 48 pages of this booklet maybe I could copy the remaining 47 as they are all worth seeing. Another of my Dads books from WW2.

I like it!

Just a few more.

Only two shirts? Blimey they must have reeked a bit!

As for the Typhoon, the worlds fastest and deadliest warplane, oh yes what about the Mosquito???

Still books like this are fascinating.

Cadets watch the effects of the controls when an expert demonstrates.

'Right, you will see that when I pull the stick back that the elevator goes u----er...down?

Sergeant! One of your clowns has reversed the control wires!'

'Only two shirts'!

I worked with a man who used a pillowcase as part of his 'civvies' dress with slits cut for neck and arms and front and back holes for collar studs. For those of you who have never had to use detached collars, a number of separate collars were issued to scale. With shirt on, a collar was first attached to the shirt at the centre rear by feeding a 'back stud' through a 'buttonhole' in the shirt and then through the collar, The wings of the collar were then swung forward one at a time and a 'front stud' fed through the shirt at the neck and then through the hole in each wing of the collar. Then the collar had to be folded up to get the tie into position.

Collars were made of the same cotton drill as the shirts and since they got the dirtiest could be laundered and dried by the owner theoretically improving one's appearance! One shirt on the back and one in the wash was the usual. No wonder we all smelled!

Shoes (Canvas with laces) were universally known as Plimsolls and were required for PT (Physical Training)

canberra;80732 wrote:

Only two shirts? Blimey they must have reeked a bit!

As for the Typhoon, the worlds fastest and deadliest warplane, oh yes what about the Mosquito???

Still books like this are fascinating.

No mention of Lancaster either, so that indicates that the book was printed 39 - 40 ish.

The Typhoon appeared in 1941/2, so the Mosquito was around and the Lancaster was about to appear. Looking at the pictures the officer is wearing what I think is a civil air guard uniform or possibly an Air Defence Cadet Corps uniform so I think the pictures are from 1940 ish as the ATC wasnt formed until 5th Febriuary 1941.

On the subject of collarless shirts, barristers wear them with their robes, and most of the males wear plastic collars with them.

[ QUOTE=DG1;80781]No mention of Lancaster either, so that indicates that the book was printed 39 - 40 ish.[/QUOTE]




Well done DG1, there is no date of publication anywhere in this book, but from the above photographs you can work-out the date. The plaque is in Scampton churchyard. Photographs taken 1987-9.