The Marshall story - Arthur Marshall

This work - spanning a century of rapid change and two world wars - charts the growth of a Cambridge company from a small family garage to a massive aerospace company, which owns Cambridge Airport and has a major car-sales business. It is also the story of the entrepreneurial Marshall family and the many notable people with whom they have been involved in their pursuit of excellence.;Begins in the kitchens of a Cambridge University college in 1887 where Sir Arthur's father David Marshall - a Victorian "Mr Fixit" - began work at the age of 14, then moves on to his chauffeur-driven hire car service, and later car sales and garaging for wealthy dons and undergraduates.;Chronicles how young Arthur, working in the family's garage business in the 1920s, got the flying bug, and opened a flying school, which later led to the company training 20,000 RAF aircrew during World War II, establishing a large aircraft repair operation in the process. Tells how in the 1960s Marshall's designed and made the droop nose and retracting visor for Concords, later winning design authority status for the RAF,s Hercules and TriStar fleets.