Aerofilms: A History of Britain from Above

by James Crawford, Katy Whittaker, James Crawford

Aerofilms Ltd was born on 9 May 1919. An unprecedented business venture, it hoped to marry the still fledgling technology of powered flight to the discipline of photography. Its founders were Claude Grahame-White, an internationally-famous English aviation pioneer, and Francis Lewis Wills, a trained architect who had flown as an observer for the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War. Together they embarked on a distinctively British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848022484
• ISBN13: 9781848022485
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Historic England in Association with Liverpoo
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.0" x 12.1"