Plate, printing
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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1963
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1991.0912.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Air Canada
- MODEL
- Gordon McGregor
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 18594
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Metal plate mounted on hardwood block.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 17.1 cm
- Width
- 14.9 cm
- Height
- 2.6 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Communications
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Air Canada
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- This plate used to print article which was published in July, 1963 edition of Air Canada publication "Between Ourselves".
- Canada
-
This plate used to print article which was published in July, 1963 edition of Air Canada publication "Between Ourselves". - Function
-
Unknown - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Text on plate reads "IN THE SUMMER OF 1940, BRITAIN/ STOOD WITH HER BACK TO THE WALL./ THE THIN LINE OF DEFENCE, 50 SQUADRONS/ OF HURRICANE AND SPITFIRE FIGHTERS,/ SEEMED PITIFULLY INADEQUATE AGAINST/ THE MASSIVE GERMAN AIR ASSAULT/ BEING LAUNCHED AGAINST ENGLAND./ BUT BRITAIN AND HER GALLANT FORCES/ STOOD FIRM AND TURNED THE TIDE. BY/ OCT. 31 THE CRISIS HAD ENDED./ CANADA WAS REPRESENTED IN THIS/ HISTORIC STRUGGLE BY R.C.A.F. NO. 1/ FIGHTER SQUADRON AND R.A.F. NO. 242/ (CANADIAN) SQUADRON LED BY THE/ FAMOUS LEGLESS ACE, DOUGLAS/ BADER. A DOZEN OTHER R.A.F. SQUAD-/ RONS HAD MANY CANADIANS IN THEIR RANKS./ CANADA IS JUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF/ THESE MEN WHO FOUGHT SO VALIANTLY, AND EMPLOYEES OF TRANS-CANADA AIR/ LINES ARE PARTICULARLY PROUD THAT/ THEIR PRESIDENT, GORDON McGREGOR,/ WAS AMONG THOSE THAT CHURCHILL/ CALLED "THE FEW"./ McGREGOR SHOT DOWN FIVE NAZI/ PLANES, SHARED CREDIT FOR A SIXTH,/ HAD SEVEN "PROBABLES" AND DAMAGED/ EIGHT OTHERS./ LATER, HE COMMENDED R.C.A.F. NO. 2/ FIGHTER SQUADRON AND ROSE TO/ BECOME DIRECTOR OF AIR STAFF, R.C.A.F./ HEADQUARTERS OVERSEAS./ IN 1942-'43, MCGREGOR COMMANDED/ THE CANADIAN WINGS DURING THE ALEUTIAN/ CAMPAIGN AND, PRIOR TO THE NORMANDY/ INVASION, TOOK COMMAND OF 126 WING,/ 83 GROUP, SECOND TACTICAL AIR FORCE." "JIM BRUCE" appears in lower right coner of plate, below illustrations. "AIR CANADA/ BETWEEN OURSELVES" stamped in black ink on block end; "18594" and "5" stamped into opposite end of block.
- Missing
- None.
- Finish
- Metal plate mounted on hardwood block.
- Decoration
- Illustration of Gordon McGregor and three airborne aircraft.
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Air Canada, Plate, printing, circa 1963, Artifact no. 1991.0912, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1991.0912.001/
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