The Eagle Book of Cutaways 1988

Eagle Book of Cutaways is a celebration of the work of the late Leslie Ashwell Wood covering a variety of the cutaway drawings from the Eagle Comic from 1952 through to the early 1960's. The artist's view of the future was optimistic, predicting all manner of atomic powered craft. Even Dan Dare's Spaceship, the Anastasia, is revealed in detail.

Original Price : RRP: £12.95

Published by : Webb & Bower in 1988

Edited by : Denis Gifford

Dimensions : 26.5cm x 23m with 96 pages.

Selected highlights:
  • Battle of Britain aircraft : the Spitfire and the Hurricane
  • Britain's 52-Ton Super Tank
  • The Hovercraft Air-cushion Machine : the Saunders-Roe SR-N1
  • The Routemaster : probably still in use in London
  • The Atomic Locomotive : still not seen one yet

CONTENTS
3 Introduction
LAND  
4/5 A Royal Car:The Daimler Straight Eight: 8 May 1953
6/7 The British Car of 1953: 23 October 1953
8/9 The Frisky: The Meadows Minature Car: 27 December 1957
10/11 The Last of London's Trams and Trolleybuses: 9 September 1961
12/13 The Routemaster: The World's Most Up-to-date Bus: 22 June 1952
14/15 Britain's Latest Fire-Engines: The A.E.C. Merryweather: 18 July 1952
16/17 Bluebird Seven: Donald Campbell's Jet-engined Racing Car: 3 September 1960
18/19 Britain's 52-Ton Super Tank: The Centurion: 9 January 1953
20/21 Britain's First Streamlined Express: The Silver Link: 9 January 1960
22/23 The 'Coronation Scot' Express: 12 December 1959
24/25 Battle of Britain Class Locomotive: 14 November 1959
26/27 The World's Longest Non-Stop Train: The Elizabethan: 14 August 1953
28/29 The New Gas Turbine-Electric Locomotive: The 18000: 14 April 1950
30/31 The Inter-City Diesel Railcar: 14 April 1958
32/33 Amazing Underground Flying and Crossover Junctions: 13 October 1950
SEA  
34/35 The New 'Empress of Britain': 17 June 1955
36/37 The Antarctic Ship 'Toten': 7 February 1959
38/39 The Latest Unsinkable Motor Lifeboat: 6 October 1950
40/41 Fibre-Glass Thames Police Launch: 1 November 1958
42/43 The 'Crusader': John Cobb's Jet Speedboat: 7 November 1952
44/45 The Hovercraft Air-cushion Machine: The Saunders-Roe SR-N1: 24 October 1959
46/47 HMS 'Eagle': The New Wonder Aircraft Carrier: 10 April 1952
48/49 World's Fastest Torpedo Boat: The Brave Borderer: 26 March 1960
50/51 Crossing the Atlantic Underwater: The A-Class Andrew Submarine: 6 November 1953
AIR  
52/53 The First Atlantic Flight: The Vickers Vimy Biplane: 21 November 1959
54/55 A Famous Airliner of the Past: The Handley Page 42: 31 December 1960
56/57 A Typical British Flying Boat: The Short Solent: 4 August 1950
58/59 The First Four-Jet Airliner in the World: The De Haviland Comet: 5 May 1950
60/61 The New 'Britannia': The Bristol Britannia: 12 December 1952
62/63 A Superb New Airliner: The Vickers VC-10: 2 July 1960
64/65 TWISS-SSH - 1132 Miles an Hour: The Fairey Delta 2: 27 April 1956
66/67 The Flaming Pencil: The Bristol 188: 4 June 1960
68/69 The Battle of Britain Aircraft: The Spitfire and the Hurricane: 12 September 1952
70/71 The Submarine-Hunting 'Seamew': 13 April 1946
72/73 The Famous 'Blenheim' Fighter-Bomber: The Bristol Blenheim: 28 May 1960
74/75 The Duke's Helicopter: The Westland-Sikorsky S-55: 17 July 1953
76/77 One of the World's Fastest Fighters: The Hawker Hunter F1: 30 October 1953
TOMORROW  
78/79 Britain's Latest Atomic Research Station: Dounreay: 18 October 1957
80/81 The Atomic Submarine: 23 May 1952
82/83 The Atomic Locomotive : 1 August 1952
84/85 The Atomic-Powered Aircraft Carrier: 13 April 1954
86/87 A 200 MPH Overhead Monorail Car: 14 January 1955
88/89 A Flying Wing Jet Airliner of the Future: 5 April 1951
90/91 Breaking the Space Barrier: Space Satellites: 23 September 1955
92/93 The Anastasia: Dan Dare's Spaceship: 7 February 1958
FLASHBACK : THE FIFTIES  
94/95 The Years of Progress: 1950-1960: 'Eagle' is Ten: 16 April 1960

Note: the 1946 year date in the above list is how the book is printed, both in the contents list and on the drawing itself.