Working from source material, much of which has never been seen before, Peter Clegg is has written the first in an expected ten volume set chronicling each of the Test-Pilots that worked for 'Manchester's finest' - A. V. Roe & Co. Ltd.
The first volume - featuring the early pilots from founder of the company Alliott Verdon-Roe to H. A. 'Sam' Brown - has seven Chapters and ten Appendices that contains over 300 illustrations.
It has information and photographs covering the period from A.V. Roe's first triplane, through the days of the famous Avro 504, the graceful Avian, the workhorse Anson, and the Avro Manchester, up to the famous Lancaster and York