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

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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.ingenium.ca/en/id/1991.0912.001/

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