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Four H.M.V. Shellac records of "The Dam Busters" March, B10877 matrix OEA-18296-3A, all with different sleeves, one with pencil "I'll be at the Bus stop at four", another with pen "E Wallis Dam Busters"
SOLD FOR £240
Four H.M.V. Shellac records of "The Dam Busters" March, B10877 matrix OEA-18296-3A, all with different sleeves, one with pencil "I'll be at the Bus stop at four", another with pen "E Wallis Dam Busters"
Barnes Wallis' personal copy of "The Dam Busters" film's cinema promotional brochure in folio format. In full colour with cover of Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC DSO DFC.
SOLD FOR £620
Barnes Wallis' personal copy of "The Dam Busters" film's cinema promotional brochure in folio format. In full colour with cover of Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC DSO DFC.
Barnes Wallis' personal copy of "The Dam Busters" 1955 film lobby poster in British half sheet format (22 inches x 27 inches), on blue card depicting Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC DSO DFC with red Dam Buster title
SOLD FOR £840
Barnes Wallis' personal copy of "The Dam Busters" 1955 film lobby poster in British half sheet format (22 inches x 27 inches), on blue card depicting Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC DSO DFC with red Dam Buster title
Barnes Wallis' personal copy of "The Dam Busters" 1955 film, cased in three and a half reels of 16mm film, mounted on Tuscan Reels in original Pathe plastic film cases
SOLD FOR £1600
Barnes Wallis' personal copy of "The Dam Busters" 1955 film, cased in three and a half reels of 16mm film, mounted on Tuscan Reels in original Pathe plastic film cases
WOODWARD, David, The Tirpitz. London: William Kimber. 8vo, 223pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Second edition 1953. Together with an envelope addressed to Dr Barnes with pencil notes to the reverse, a loose slip of paper with typed notes and a cut out section of the books dust cover, signed B.N. Wallis to half title page
SOLD FOR £340
WOODWARD, David, The Tirpitz. London: William Kimber. 8vo, 223pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Second edition 1953. Together with an envelope addressed to Dr Barnes with pencil notes to the reverse, a loose slip of paper with typed notes and a cut out section of the books dust cover, signed B.N. Wallis to half title page
KUCHEMANN and WEBER, Aerodynamics of Propulsion. London: McGraw-Hill 1953, 8vo, 340pp, cream cloth, gilt lettering, initialled B.N.W to endpapers
SOLD FOR £75
KUCHEMANN and WEBER, Aerodynamics of Propulsion. London: McGraw-Hill 1953, 8vo, 340pp, cream cloth, gilt lettering, initialled B.N.W to endpapers
OSTLER George. The Little Oxford Dictionary, Third Edition Clarendon Press, Oxford 1951, 12mo, 637pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine, minor rubbing to corners ad edges of spine, signed B.N. Wallis September 1952 to endpaper
SOLD FOR £130
OSTLER George. The Little Oxford Dictionary, Third Edition Clarendon Press, Oxford 1951, 12mo, 637pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine, minor rubbing to corners ad edges of spine, signed B.N. Wallis September 1952 to endpaper
FARRINGTON G. H. Fundamentals of Automatic Control. London: Chapman and Hall 1951, 8vo, 285pp., signed B.N. Wallis Aug. 1951 to endpaper, complete with dust cover
SOLD FOR £75
FARRINGTON G. H. Fundamentals of Automatic Control. London: Chapman and Hall 1951, 8vo, 285pp., signed B.N. Wallis Aug. 1951 to endpaper, complete with dust cover
A white wooden 1/27th scale demonstration model of the Type 002 Vickers Swallow supersonic wing-controlled aerodyne, with moveable swing wings, together with a wooden transport case, 6cm high x 108cm wide at full spread 43cm long, when closed 39cm x 93cm long
SOLD FOR £1300
A white wooden 1/27th scale demonstration model of the Type 002 Vickers Swallow supersonic wing-controlled aerodyne, with moveable swing wings, together with a wooden transport case, 6cm high x 108cm wide at full spread 43cm long, when closed 39cm x 93cm long
A yellow painted wooden model of the Vickers Swallow, raised on a wooden base with engraved metal plaque stamped "1954-1958 Swallow 1/16 Scale Model of Trials Aircraft" 14cm h x 65cm w x 30cm d. The Vickers Swallow was the evolution from the Wild Goose toward creating a supersonic aircraft
SOLD FOR £1750
A yellow painted wooden model of the Vickers Swallow, raised on a wooden base with engraved metal plaque stamped "1954-1958 Swallow 1/16 Scale Model of Trials Aircraft" 14cm h x 65cm w x 30cm d. The Vickers Swallow was the evolution from the Wild Goose toward creating a supersonic aircraft
A yellow painted wooden model of the Wild Goose, raised on a wooden base with metal plaque stamped "1949-1954 Wild Goose, Wing-Controlled Aerodyne, 1/16 Scale Model Trials Aircraft" 15cm h x 47cm w x 35cm d. Wild Goose was a late forties research project into tailless variable-sweep aircraft using a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). It was developed to explore the advantages of variable-geometry or swing-wing aircraft and eventually evolved into the Swallow.
SOLD FOR £3800
A yellow painted wooden model of the Wild Goose, raised on a wooden base with metal plaque stamped "1949-1954 Wild Goose, Wing-Controlled Aerodyne, 1/16 Scale Model Trials Aircraft" 15cm h x 47cm w x 35cm d. Wild Goose was a late forties research project into tailless variable-sweep aircraft using a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). It was developed to explore the advantages of variable-geometry or swing-wing aircraft and eventually evolved into the Swallow.
7 vols. Engineering and conversion table volumes to include Engineering Tables and Data 32pp. (small booklet pencilled B.N.W to cover). NEL Steam Tables 1964, Edinburgh: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1964, 4to, 146pp. The endpaper signed B.N. Wallis with taped in note paper pencilled formulae and taped in printed correction slip, also with loose printed supplement and taped in printed conversion Table 8 to the back. Conversion Tables And Technical Data 1962 by Bristol Siddeley 12mo, 128pp. (dedication inside "With best wishes from R illegible?"). A Pocket Book of Tables by Shell (dedication inside To B.N.W. from P.L.T.) 1956 12mo, 255pp. Rolls Royce Conversion tables circa 1950 12mo, 97pp. A booklet Direct & Inverse Log-Log Differential scales, signed to cover B.N. Wallis and A Selection of Tables for use in Calculations of Compressible Airflow 1952, 4to, 143pp.
SOLD FOR £120
7 vols. Engineering and conversion table volumes to include Engineering Tables and Data 32pp. (small booklet pencilled B.N.W to cover). NEL Steam Tables 1964, Edinburgh: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1964, 4to, 146pp. The endpaper signed B.N. Wallis with taped in note paper pencilled formulae and taped in printed correction slip, also with loose printed supplement and taped in printed conversion Table 8 to the back. Conversion Tables And Technical Data 1962 by Bristol Siddeley 12mo, 128pp. (dedication inside "With best wishes from R illegible?"). A Pocket Book of Tables by Shell (dedication inside To B.N.W. from P.L.T.) 1956 12mo, 255pp. Rolls Royce Conversion tables circa 1950 12mo, 97pp. A booklet Direct & Inverse Log-Log Differential scales, signed to cover B.N. Wallis and A Selection of Tables for use in Calculations of Compressible Airflow 1952, 4to, 143pp.
Three NASA documents, the first marked Secret No.2 of 5 Copies, dated August 27th 1959 with cover letter to Colonel Romig concerning transmission of three copies of attached data, regarding the test of the Vickers Swallow configuration in The NASA Langley 16ft transonic wind tunnel, dated August 27,1959, 4to, together with another report NASA TN D-3276 (not secret) "Effect of Geometric Modifications on the Maximum Lift Drag Ratios of Slender Wing-body Configurations at Hypersonic Speeds", 4to, 59pp., and NASA TN D-6010 "Dose Response Functions in the Atmosphere Due to Incident High-Energy Protons With Application to Solar Proton Events, Washington D.C. 1970 4to, 31pp.
SOLD FOR £300
Three NASA documents, the first marked Secret No.2 of 5 Copies, dated August 27th 1959 with cover letter to Colonel Romig concerning transmission of three copies of attached data, regarding the test of the Vickers Swallow configuration in The NASA Langley 16ft transonic wind tunnel, dated August 27,1959, 4to, together with another report NASA TN D-3276 (not secret) "Effect of Geometric Modifications on the Maximum Lift Drag Ratios of Slender Wing-body Configurations at Hypersonic Speeds", 4to, 59pp., and NASA TN D-6010 "Dose Response Functions in the Atmosphere Due to Incident High-Energy Protons With Application to Solar Proton Events, Washington D.C. 1970 4to, 31pp.
BONNEY, E. Arthur. Engineering Supersonic Aerodynamics London: Magraw Hill 1950, 8vo, 264pp., bound in contemporary blue cloth, gilt lettering. First Edition. Signed B.N. Wallis to endpaper along with pencil formula and pencilled notes to page 140.
SOLD FOR £460
BONNEY, E. Arthur. Engineering Supersonic Aerodynamics London: Magraw Hill 1950, 8vo, 264pp., bound in contemporary blue cloth, gilt lettering. First Edition. Signed B.N. Wallis to endpaper along with pencil formula and pencilled notes to page 140.
A collection of 7 post-war pamphlets and a document including:- Some Ballistic Contributions to Aerodynamics (initialled B.N.W. to paper cover) 1947, Scientific Man-Power 1946, Report on The Needs of Research in Fundamental Science After the War 1945, 61pp., signed B.N. Wallis to endpaper, The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics Vol II Part 1 March 1949, initialled B.N.W. to paper cover, The Institution of Electrical Engineers initialled B.N.W. to paper cover, Smith Maxwell and O'Farrell M, Aviation fuel, 1954 initialled B.N.W. to paper cover, together with a typed document "Post-War Aviation" (undated with maps)
SOLD FOR £90
A collection of 7 post-war pamphlets and a document including:- Some Ballistic Contributions to Aerodynamics (initialled B.N.W. to paper cover) 1947, Scientific Man-Power 1946, Report on The Needs of Research in Fundamental Science After the War 1945, 61pp., signed B.N. Wallis to endpaper, The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics Vol II Part 1 March 1949, initialled B.N.W. to paper cover, The Institution of Electrical Engineers initialled B.N.W. to paper cover, Smith Maxwell and O'Farrell M, Aviation fuel, 1954 initialled B.N.W. to paper cover, together with a typed document "Post-War Aviation" (undated with maps)
MITRA S. K. The Upper Atmosphere, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal Calcutta 1948, endpaper signed B.N. Wallis, 8vo, 616pp. Original blue cloth gilt and black lettering, some minor rubbing to edges of corners and spine. 4 Wallis bookmarks offering thoughts and corrections
SOLD FOR £150
MITRA S. K. The Upper Atmosphere, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal Calcutta 1948, endpaper signed B.N. Wallis, 8vo, 616pp. Original blue cloth gilt and black lettering, some minor rubbing to edges of corners and spine. 4 Wallis bookmarks offering thoughts and corrections
4 vols. Engineering volumes to include Pippard, A.J.S. The Experimental Study of Structures 1947, 8vo, 114pp. blue cloth, white lettering with dust cover, marked B.N. Wallis From the author 1947 to endpaper. Hunsaker Engineering Applications of Fluid Mechanics 1947, 8vo, 494pp. green cloth, gilt lettering, initialled B.N.W. to endpaper. Churchill Modern Operation of Mathematics in Engineering 1944, 8vo, 306pp. black cloth, gilt lettering, signed B.N. Wallis to endpaper and Fairhurst Arch Design Simplified 1945, 8vo, 61pp blue cloth, gilt lettering, initialled B.N.W 1946 to endpaper
SOLD FOR £100
4 vols. Engineering volumes to include Pippard, A.J.S. The Experimental Study of Structures 1947, 8vo, 114pp. blue cloth, white lettering with dust cover, marked B.N. Wallis From the author 1947 to endpaper. Hunsaker Engineering Applications of Fluid Mechanics 1947, 8vo, 494pp. green cloth, gilt lettering, initialled B.N.W. to endpaper. Churchill Modern Operation of Mathematics in Engineering 1944, 8vo, 306pp. black cloth, gilt lettering, signed B.N. Wallis to endpaper and Fairhurst Arch Design Simplified 1945, 8vo, 61pp blue cloth, gilt lettering, initialled B.N.W 1946 to endpaper
Seven volumes of 1940's Royal United Service Institution Journals, to include November '42, August '44, May '45, May '46, August '46, (written to front cover Tizard's address. initialled B.N.W), May '47, August '47
SOLD FOR £55
Seven volumes of 1940's Royal United Service Institution Journals, to include November '42, August '44, May '45, May '46, August '46, (written to front cover Tizard's address. initialled B.N.W), May '47, August '47
A wooden adjustable catapult designed for and used in the 1955 movie "The Dam Busters" by Michael Redgrave (playing Sir Barnes Wallis). The catapult represents that used by Wallis in his 1941 April Bank holiday garden marble experiments, to prototype the concept of the bouncing bomb. The catapult raised on triform base and mounted on metal collar with tripod supports. The catapult firing rail adjustable in angle by a wing nut, having a projectile receptacle attached to elastic cord running along the top rail of the device. The rail fitted a trigger to release the projectile. 138cm h, catapult rail 93cm l
SOLD FOR £3400
A wooden adjustable catapult designed for and used in the 1955 movie "The Dam Busters" by Michael Redgrave (playing Sir Barnes Wallis). The catapult represents that used by Wallis in his 1941 April Bank holiday garden marble experiments, to prototype the concept of the bouncing bomb. The catapult raised on triform base and mounted on metal collar with tripod supports. The catapult firing rail adjustable in angle by a wing nut, having a projectile receptacle attached to elastic cord running along the top rail of the device. The rail fitted a trigger to release the projectile. 138cm h, catapult rail 93cm l
Barnes Wallis' facsimile copy of the 617 Squadron Grant of Arms granted in March 1944. The badge symbolises the successful attack on the dams in May 1943 with the lightning flashes symbolising the three dams attacked. The French motto "Apres Moi Le Deluge" translating as "After me the flood". The paper is creased and stained and framed in a contemporary 1940's perspex frame with green border 18cm h x 15cm w
SOLD FOR £1300
Barnes Wallis' facsimile copy of the 617 Squadron Grant of Arms granted in March 1944. The badge symbolises the successful attack on the dams in May 1943 with the lightning flashes symbolising the three dams attacked. The French motto "Apres Moi Le Deluge" translating as "After me the flood". The paper is creased and stained and framed in a contemporary 1940's perspex frame with green border 18cm h x 15cm w
Composed by the Fluid Motion Panel of the Aeronautical Research Committee and Others, edited by S Goldstein, Modern Developments in Fluid Dynamics Volume I. Oxford: At The Clarenden Press. 8vo, 330pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. First Edition 1943. Some underlined text and written notes in pencil on page 327 and notes to page 329 together with a note with hand written equations.
SOLD FOR £160
Composed by the Fluid Motion Panel of the Aeronautical Research Committee and Others, edited by S Goldstein, Modern Developments in Fluid Dynamics Volume I. Oxford: At The Clarenden Press. 8vo, 330pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. First Edition 1943. Some underlined text and written notes in pencil on page 327 and notes to page 329 together with a note with hand written equations.
PIAGGIO, H. T. H. Differential Equations - An Elementary Treatise on Differential Equations and Their Applications. London: Bell 1942 8vo 259pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Notepaper with pencilled triangles to page 47. Minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Signed B.N. Wallis
SOLD FOR £140
PIAGGIO, H. T. H. Differential Equations - An Elementary Treatise on Differential Equations and Their Applications. London: Bell 1942 8vo 259pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Notepaper with pencilled triangles to page 47. Minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Signed B.N. Wallis
DIEHL, Walter Stuart. Engineering Aerodynamics. New York: The Ronald Press Company. 8vo, 556pp. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine. Some rubbing to corners and edges of the spine. Fourth Printing, July 1940. Initialled B.N.W. April 1941
SOLD FOR £200
DIEHL, Walter Stuart. Engineering Aerodynamics. New York: The Ronald Press Company. 8vo, 556pp. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine. Some rubbing to corners and edges of the spine. Fourth Printing, July 1940. Initialled B.N.W. April 1941
ALLEN, Edgar C. Machinery's Screw Thread Book. London: Machinery Publishing Co, Ltd 1940, 8vo, 147pp. Orange card cover with black lettered spine. Fading to spine, some minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Pastedown and endpaper with stuck labels "MR. WALLIS' PRIVATE COPY". Initialled to front cover B.N.W.
SOLD FOR £190
ALLEN, Edgar C. Machinery's Screw Thread Book. London: Machinery Publishing Co, Ltd 1940, 8vo, 147pp. Orange card cover with black lettered spine. Fading to spine, some minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Pastedown and endpaper with stuck labels "MR. WALLIS' PRIVATE COPY". Initialled to front cover B.N.W.
A Confidential handbook - 53.3 c/m Weymouth Torpedo for Turkish Destroyers. Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. 1940. 4to, 9pp. with 16 pull out cross section plates of torpedos. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering. Rubbing to corners and edges of spine.
SOLD FOR £220
A Confidential handbook - 53.3 c/m Weymouth Torpedo for Turkish Destroyers. Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. 1940. 4to, 9pp. with 16 pull out cross section plates of torpedos. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering. Rubbing to corners and edges of spine.