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3 unusual facts about Laurence Bagley


Laurence Bagley

In 1953, as a commemoration of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation year, the government commissioned a number of artists, most of them famous, but also some upstarts, to paint pictures of the coronation.

In the early 60's when Westland began to develop the hovercraft at the Saunders-Roe site (later to become The British Hovercraft Corporation) at Cowes, Isle of Wight, he painted dozens of artists impressions of their proposed new designs.

In the same year Bagley’s first book, How to Fly was published by Blackie and Son, followed by The Boy's Book of Aircraft in 1954.



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