Francis Chichester produced pictorial maps and guides starting just after the second world war. They were sometimes done as promotional items with the name of a company on the cover or associated with specific events like the 1951 Festival Of Britain. Looks like this one was a promotion for the English Electric company but also includes some custom maps of their location. The maps are not usually dated but given the history of EE, this is likely from the 1950s. Francis Chichester himself later became the first person to sail single handed around the world.
So they guy who wrote the book is dead now, unsurprisingly.
>The green plaque on the building reads: Pioneer Aviator, Sailor and Author Sir Francis Chichester KBE 1901-1972, single-handed circumnavigator of the World 1966-67, lived here 1944-1972. By Westminster City Council and The Royal Institute of Navigation.
I served my apprenticeship at the former English Electric factory in Preston, by then known as British Aerospace.
Famous for building the bestest interceptor aircraft ever made, the Lightning and also, earlier in their history, for having the world’s best ladies football team, “DIck Kerr’s Ladies”….
I used Google Lens on the photo and added ‘English Electric’ to the search. Not sure how relevant the results are.
Quite a lot of companies had stuff like this made up to be given out to visitors and other people related to the company. I have a few different map books, pens, bottle openers and other everyday items in this vein. Some of them have real leather cases and one of them is even sterling silver (a letter opener I assume was some sort of long service gift) They’re significantly better quality than the disposable plastic pens and other crap given out these days.
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I think it’s a book called ‘English Electric’
Looks like an employee handbook for the English Electric company to help employees escape Luton
Possibly the first edition of the electric procedures. Its the 18th edition now that sparkies have to be qualified to
1940s version of free pizza afternoons.
See: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric)
English Erected
You can read right?
Francis Chichester produced pictorial maps and guides starting just after the second world war. They were sometimes done as promotional items with the name of a company on the cover or associated with specific events like the 1951 Festival Of Britain. Looks like this one was a promotion for the English Electric company but also includes some custom maps of their location. The maps are not usually dated but given the history of EE, this is likely from the 1950s. Francis Chichester himself later became the first person to sail single handed around the world.
It looks like a guide to London branded for [English Electric](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric) – makers of [fine aircraft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning) and much other military and other industrial machinery.
The map inside the front cover is customised for EE’s purposes and the rest looks like a fairly standard guide book to London.
I dion’t understand, you appear to have all the information you need on the cover and inner cover of the book.
Only thing it doesn’t have is an ISBN number…
The publishers address:
https://www.buildington.co.uk/buildings/8149/london-sw1/9-st-james-s-place/9-st-james-s-place
So they guy who wrote the book is dead now, unsurprisingly.
>The green plaque on the building reads: Pioneer Aviator, Sailor and Author Sir Francis Chichester KBE 1901-1972, single-handed circumnavigator of the World 1966-67, lived here 1944-1972. By Westminster City Council and The Royal Institute of Navigation.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric) should give you the information you need.
I served my apprenticeship at the former English Electric factory in Preston, by then known as British Aerospace.
Famous for building the bestest interceptor aircraft ever made, the Lightning and also, earlier in their history, for having the world’s best ladies football team, “DIck Kerr’s Ladies”….
I used Google Lens on the photo and added ‘English Electric’ to the search. Not sure how relevant the results are.
Quite a lot of companies had stuff like this made up to be given out to visitors and other people related to the company. I have a few different map books, pens, bottle openers and other everyday items in this vein. Some of them have real leather cases and one of them is even sterling silver (a letter opener I assume was some sort of long service gift) They’re significantly better quality than the disposable plastic pens and other crap given out these days.