BRAMWELL, Professor Anthony Robert Southey (1927-1981)

Scope and Content

'MIL F 83300 Military specification of piloted V/STOL aircraft' issued by US Government Printing Office, 1970.

Administrative / Biographical History

Born in 1927; began his career as a commercial artist illustrating RAF technical manuals, then undertook various jobs at Royal Aeronautical Establishment; wrote doctoral thesis on helicopter stability and went on to teach at Bedford Technical College; appointed Senior Lecturer, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, City University, 1966; appointed Head of Department, 1977; also carried out research into helicopter dynamics, acted as a consultant to the Ministry of Defence and to industry, and served as a member of the Helicopter Research Advisory Group; died in 1981. Publications: Helicopter dynamics (Arnold, London, 1976)

Arrangement

Single item

Access Information

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Acquisition Information

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1982.

Other Finding Aids

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Separated Material

City University, London, holds papers on aeronautical engineering.

Conditions Governing Use

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.