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Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career, and 'Nevil Shute' as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels
Born in Somerset Road, Ealing, London, he was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford. Shute's father, Arthur Hamilton Norway, became head of the post office in Ireland before the First World War, and was based at the main post office in Dublin in 1916 at the time of the Easter Rising. His son was later commended for his role as a stretcher bearer during the rising. Shute attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich but because of his stammer was unable to take up a commission in the Royal Flying Corps, instead serving in World War I as a soldier in the Suffolk Regiment. An aeronautical engineer as well as a pilot, he began his engineering career with de Havilland Aircraft Company but, dissatisfied with the lack of opportunities for advancement, he took a position in 1924 with Vickers Ltd., where he was involved with the development of airships and structural geodetic frame design. Shute worked as Chief Calculator (stress engineer) on the R100 airship project for the subsidiary Airship Guarantee Company. In 1929, he was promoted to Deputy Chief Engineer of the R100 project under Sir Barnes Wallis.
The R100 was a prototype for passenger-carrying airships that would serve the needs of Britain's empire. The government-funded but privately-developed R100 was a success in that it made a successful return trip to and from Canada and also while in Canada local trips to Ottawa, Toronto and Niagara Falls from Montreal. But the fatal 1930 crash in France of its government-developed counterpart R101 while flying to India ended Britain's interest in airships. The Secretary of State for Air, Lord Thomson, died in this crash. The R100 was grounded and scrapped. Shute gives a detailed account of the episode in his 1954 autobiographical work, Slide Rule. He strongly hinted in this autobiography that if there had been co-operation between the two teams the tragedy of R101 could well have been averted. But according to Shute there was virtually no contact between him and Sir Harold Roxbee Cox who was the Head of Development of R101 project until the very end.
He left Vickers shortly afterwards and in 1931 founded the aircraft construction company Airspeed Ltd.
Shute identified how engineering, science and design could improve human life and more than once used the apparently anonymous epigram, "It has been said an engineer is a man who can do for five shillings what any fool can do for a pound...." It is said that Shute was a cousin of the red haired Irish-American actress Geraldine Fitzgerald. However, this seems to be a confusion with his account in his autobiography of his older brother Fred's proposal in Dublin in 1913 to the "ravishingly beautiful ... dark hair[ed]" Geraldine Fitzgerald who wanted to go on the stage. Fred Norway himself died of wounds in France in 1915
On 7 March 1931, Shute married Frances Mary Heaton, a 28-year-old medical practitioner. They had two daughters, Heather and Shirley.
By the outbreak of World War II, Shute was already a rising novelist. Even as war seemed imminent he was working on military projects with his former Vickers boss Sir Dennistoun Burney. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a sub-lieutenant and quickly ended up in what would become the Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development. There he was a head of engineering, working on secret weapons such as Panjandrum, a job that appealed to the engineer in him. His celebrity as a writer caused the Ministry of Information to send him to the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 and later to Burma as a correspondent. He finished the war with the rank of lieutenant-commander RNVR.
In 1948, after World War II, he flew his own Percival Proctor light airplane to Australia and back, with the writer James Riddell. On his return home, concerned about the general decline in his home country, he decided that he and his family would emigrate and so, in 1950, he settled with his wife and two daughters on farmland at Langwarrin, south-east of Melbourne. In Slide Rule quoted from the diary he kept during the R-100's successful test flight to Canada. Shute had written in 1930, "I would never have believed after a fortnight's stay I should be so sorry to leave a country." In 1954 he introduced that quote, "For the first time in my life I saw how people live in an English-speaking country outside England," and said it was interesting in light of his later decision to emigrate to Australia.
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21477.Nevil_Shute |
Books
Nevil Shute - A Town Like Alice (read by Robin Bailey)
Nevil Shute - On The Beach (read by Simon Prebble)
Nevil Shute - Trustee From The Toolroom (read by Frank Muller)
Nevil Shute - Pied Piper (read by Robin Bailey)
Nevil Shute - The Far Country (read by Robin Bailey)
Nevil Shute - The Breaking Wave (read by Patrick Tull)
Nevil Shute - No Highway (read by Robin Bailey)
Nevil Shute - Round The Bend (read by Christopher Hart)
Nevil Shute - Pastoral (read by Frank Muller)
Nevil Shute - In The Wet (read by Norman Dietz)
Nevil Shute - Most Secret (read by James Faulkner)
Nevil Shute - Beyond The Black Stump (read by Davina Porter)
Nevil Shute - Ruined City (read by Robin Bailey)
Nevil Shute - The Rainbow And The Rose (read by Robin Bailey)
Nevil Shute - Slide Rule (read by Michael Tudor Barnes)
Nevil Shute - So Disdained (read by Stephen Thorne)
Nevil Shute - Marazan (read by David Collins)
Nevil Shute - Ordeal (read by Ian Stuart)
Nevil Shute - Stephen Morris And Pilotage (read by Gordon Griffin)
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Books
http://rapidgator.net/file/8ed6728d30985544e806e74e419dd577/A_Town_Like_Alice.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3260ed290a4be89802ed1c3db753d993/On_The_Beach.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b641bee3b24ab1a12768f60f64e467cd/Trustee_From_The_Toolroom.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/70c0c46c0f37cec7df6bde5b46bb5260/Pied_Piper.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b81095dece4e96ca1bd0afc0e1df8cc0/The_Far_Country.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/bc4c6af122c1fb012513655fb6d71cab/The_Breaking_Wave.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/da7ecf139c988721fe06114eb4fa9ee8/No_Highway.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/720c96f9d76f4638cfc2ea2e8c87a3df/Round_The_Bend.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ad65939c9b6ae51ab2344266c994c793/Pastoral.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6466e42c15447961501c58a3da4e2b9b/In_The_Wet.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/86338b43f284b84a1d45774ea11cd8eb/Most_Secret.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5406775d043e01e241f7855ae89c843e/Beyond_The_Black_Stump.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/86faac01e81d51788ce9825105436b14/Ruined_City.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0eaa8f12349a986f77a72735d288bf64/The_Rainbow_And_The_Rose.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9f46b3aed906ac7d979a6afeb1426e72/Slide_Rule.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8865151219eddcb8049eae2c5f172ce8/So_Disdained.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/871b02bc14a8a57d30e51b7e3b9b5d7a/Marazan.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c9c57dcea7fb38e0794e60e504c0fd01/Ordeal.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/889b46e704a1a75a013af1a0596b6491/Stephen_Morris_And_Pilotage.rar.html |
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