Shute Nevil. Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer

London: Pan, 1968. - 224 c.
The novel was first published in 1954.
Scanned at 600 dpi.The Autobiography of Nevil Shute covers his childhood when his father was head of the Irish Post office, his education, his job as an engineer on the R 100 airship project, and the aircraft company he subsequently formed. It focuses primarily on the competition between the Royal Aircraft Establishment and a private company where Shute worked on R-100.