SOLD FOR £120
A collection of research pamphlets (14) from 1927-1940 mainly by The Aeronautical Research Committee to include : The Strength of Tubular Struts 1927, 44pp. (initialled B.N.W to front cover), A Non Dimensional Form of The Stability Equations of an Aeroplane March 1927, Light Alloys For Aeronautical Purposes 1934, 32pp., Summary of The Present State of Knowledge Regarding Sheet Metal Construction 1933, 20pp. (back cover missing), Buckling of Thin Plates in Compression 1933, 21pp. (back cover missing), Technical Report Into The Accident To The Aeroplane G-AAZK at Meopham Kent on 21st July 1930, published January 1931, 92pp., The Size-Grading of Sand by Wind 1937, The Optimum Size of Models for Studying Flow Through Nest of Tubes 1939, 9pp., Resistance To Flow Through Nest of Tubes 1939, 20pp. The Manufacture of High Strength Light Alloy Extrusions 1938-1939, 39pp., The Use of Model Data in Aeroplane Design 1939, 16pp., The Stresses in a Circular Ring Supported by Frictionless Radial Pins 1940 marked With the author's compliments (x2) and Sound Control in Buildings 1940
SOLD FOR £95
PLUMMER, H. C. Probability and Frequency. London: Macmillan and Co., 1940. 8vo, 265pp. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine. Minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Initialled B.N.W. Dec. 1940
SOLD FOR £100
BAIRSTOW, Leonard. Applied Aerodynamics. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 8vo, 808pp. Original red cloth, gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Second Edition. Initialled B.N.W. 1939
SOLD FOR £280
PIERCY, N.A.V. Aerodynamics, London: The English Universities Press Ltd. 1937, 8vo, 423pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Some minor rubbing to corners and edge of spine. Book plate From The Library of Barnes Neville Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S. Handwritten notes and equations on pages 80, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387 and a created page 424
SOLD FOR £120
SOUTHWELL. R.V.. An Introduction To The Theory of Elasticity For Engineers and Physicists. Oxford: At The Clarenden Press 1936. 8vo, 509pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Some fading to spine, minor rubbing to corners and edges of the spine. Signed B.N. Wallis
SOLD FOR £150
THOMPSON, Silvanus P. Calculus Made Easy. London Macmillan and Co., Limited 1936. 8vo, 301pp. Original green cloth with black lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Second Edition Enlarged. Signed B.N. Wallis and written in pencil to the back page Capt. Cecil Chichester RN, Elmsleigh, Lyme Regis.
SOLD FOR £100
TEED, Litherland P. Duralumin And Its Heat-Treatment. London: Charles Griffin & Company, Limited 1937. 8vo, 117pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Dedicated and dated by the author to the front endpaper and possibly by mistake to the back inside cover "To B.N.W. With all good wishes from the author 8/12/36."
SOLD FOR £140
GLAUERT, H. The Elements of Aerofoil and Airscrew Theory. Cambridge: At The University Press 1937. 8vo, 228pp. Original red cloth, silver lettered spine. Fading to spine, minor rubbing to corners. Reprinted edition 1937. Initialled B.N.W. Dec 1940
SOLD FOR £55
LANCHESTER, F. W. The Theory of Dimensions and Its Application for Engineers. London: Crosby, Lockwood & Son Ltd 1936. 12mo, 314pp. Original cream cloth, with gilt lettered spine. Cover in poor condition with sellotape over the spine. Initialled B.N.W.
SOLD FOR £70
VON ZEERLEDER, Alfred. The Technology of Aluminium and its Light Alloys. Amsterdam: Nordemann Publishing Company 1936. Lg. 8vo, 301pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettered spine with Vickers-Armstrongs Limited stamp dated 14 Feb 1939 to end pages and title page. Minor rubbing to covers and edges of spine.
SOLD FOR £55
A 1930's pamphlet - Visiting Methods for the Admissions and the Ordinary and Extra Control of Flyers in Italy. 16pp. (B.N. Wallis written to loose cover), containing a loose plan of the Benito Mussolini Medical Institute and photographs of equipment used to test Civil and Military pilots of suitability for flight
SOLD FOR £90
WOOD Karl D. Technical Aerodynamics. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1935. 8vo, 320pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. First Edition. Initialled B.N.W. 1936
SOLD FOR £65
PYE, D. R. The Internal Combustion Engine Vol. II The Aero-Engine. Oxford University Press 1934. Lg. 8vo, 398pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine with pencil note J.C Engines Cat 10/x/46 and Vickers-Armstrongs Limited stamp to title page
SOLD FOR £55
PYE, D. R. The Internal Combustion Engine Vol. II The Aero-Engine. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1934. Lg. 8vo, 398pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, brown dust cover
SOLD FOR £100
JAHNKE Dr Eugen and EMDE Fritz. Funktionentafeln - Tables of Functions. Leipzig: Verlag Und Druck Von B.G. Teubner in Leipzig Und Berlin 1933. 8vo, 328pp. Original brown cloth with black lettered spine. Minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Signed B.N. Wallis
SOLD FOR £120
USHERWOOD T.S. and TRIMBLE C. J. A. Intermediate Mathematics (Analysis). London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1933. 12mo, 457pp. Original red cloth with black lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Signed B.N. Wallis
SOLD FOR £360
Proceedings of The Royal Society, Series A. Vol. 139. No. A 838, February 1, 1933. 4to, 474pp. A booklet with written calculation to reverse titled "Notations for Paper" by G I Taylor relating to a chapter titled "Air Pressure on a Cone Moving at High Speeds". Loose covers
SOLD FOR £200
SALMON, E. H. Materials and Structures. London: Longmans, Green and Co 1931. 8vo, 638pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt lettered spine. Minor rubbing to covers and edges of spine. Signed B.N. Wallis
SOLD FOR £340
The Royal Aeronautical Society. Handbook of Aeronautics. London: Gale & Polden Ltd. 8vo, 703pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine, foxing to pastedown, endpaper and back papers. First Edition 1931. Signed B.N. Wallis Oct.1931
SOLD FOR £120
LOW, Bevis Brunel. Mathematics, A Text-Book for Technical Students. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1931. 8vo, 448pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, rubbing to corners and edges of spine, tear to edge of spine. Signed B.N. Wallis.
SOLD FOR £65
YOUNGER, John E and WOODS, Baldwin M. Dynamics of Airplanes and Airplane Structures. New York: John Wile & Sons Inc. London: Champion & Hall, Limited 1931. 8vo, 263pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine.
SOLD FOR £80
MILNE-THOMSON, L.M. and COMRIE, L.J. Standard Four-Figure Mathematical Tables. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1931. 4to, 245pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine, Rubbing to corners and edges of spine, scratch marks to covers. Additional loose double sided, un-numbered copy of pages 244 and 245. Initialled B.N.W. Feb 1941
SOLD FOR £90
ROUTH, Edward John. Elementary Rigid Dynamics - The Elementary Part of a Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies. London: Macmillan and Co, Limited 1930. 8vo, 443pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Initialled B.N.W. 1943
SOLD FOR £90
FRY, Thornton C. Probability and Its Engineering Uses. New York: D Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 1929, 8vo, 470pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Second Printing. Pencil written notes to the bottom of page 148.
SOLD FOR £9000
A 2 inch aluminium sphere of the type used in the Teddington ship tanks during the development of the Golf Mine "bouncing bomb". Discovered in a box of Sir Barnes Wallis' lectures slides on the "Dam Busters" raid, the spheres were the next evolutionary step after the garden marbles leading eventually to the development of the Highball and Upkeep bombs.
Between 9 June and 10 September 1942, Wallis made use of one of the two large indoor water tanks of The National Physical Laboratory at Teddington on at least 18 occasions, he stated "I moored a wax model of a battleship several hundred feet up the tank, broadside on. We fired 2in diameter balls at it, when of course after hitting the freeboard of the ship, the sinking velocity of the ball combined with back-spin to move it towards the ship, and by adjusting the mean density of the ball we were able to pass it right underneath "the soft underbelly", to quote Winston Churchill.