War time press photographs and captions

War time press photographs and captions

Top - Half Length portrait of Roy Chadwick wearing dark suit standing behind a desk looking at a document. There are windows behind. Captioned '(Wording on the back of photos). A specification is received the air ministry for a modification to be made to the Lancaster. The communication goes first to Roy Chadwick, director and chief designer of A V Roe & Co. He studies it and plans out a scheme to put it in production'. Bottom - fourteen men, ten sitting and four standing, gathered round a table looking at a model of an Avro York. Captioned 'The chief designer and assistant designers have a conference with air ministry official. Men with bombing experience are called in too from British and allied forces. At this conference Britain, Canada and Poland are represented. Vital photo'.

Two b/w photographs mounted on a page

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