Album of 73 Photographs recording the construction of Spadeadam Rocket Establishment

by Spadeadam Rocket Establishment

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Oblong 4to; photographs 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Album pebbled faux black morocco. Fine. Provenance: Rolls-Royce Engineer. Item #316382 The Rocket Establishment in Spadeadam, Cumbria, was constructed in the late 1950s as a test and launch facility for the U.K.'s Blue Streak missile, which was designed to deliver a nuclear payload to Moscow. The Spadeadam site was divided into five areas: an administration and assembly block, a British Oxygen Company

• Binding: Leather

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