Leslie Ashwell-Wood was born in North London either in 1903 or 1913.* It has not been possible to confirm with certainty his actual date of birth but reading through the various articles written by people that have carried out research into his life, 1903 seems the most likely.
Ashwell-Wood was formally educated in art, engineering and science (which was seen as a rare combination in the early twentieth century) and his early career was in the employment of Fairey Aviation, joining the company in 1936. As a trained draughtsman, or technical illustrator, it was his job to provide engineering drawings (often referred to as blueprints) that showed both third angle and isometric projections of an object, the latter giving the impression of 3-D on a flat page.
His earliest published drawings for public consumption are believed to have appeared in the children's factual magazine 'The World of Wonder' which consisted of two series of 52 and 26 issues respectively, beginning in 1932. His drawings in this series were signed as just 'LW' rather than the later universally recognised 'L. Ashwell Wood.' These two series were followed by Modern Wonder/Modern World which was first issued in May 1937 and ran until March 1941 when wartime paper rationing likely caused its cancellation. These were followed by a series of hardback books published by Odhams which feature in the first section of the webpage after this introduction.
His actual earliest known published drawing is believed to be ‘Keeping the Shipping Channels Clear,’ which appeared on the back cover of Modern Wonder Volume Two, No. 31 dated 18th December, 1937.
It is believed that Leslie Ashwell Wood worked for the Ministry of Information during wartime. Other artists who later joined him at the boys’ weekly comic come newspaper ‘EAGLE’ are also known to have worked for the government at this time. Laurence Dunn worked in the Admiralty’s Naval Intelligence Division and Hubert Redmill was in the Air Intelligence branch of MI6.
Ashwell Wood had a distinct illustrative style that featured in many books and magazines, notably working as Eagle’s longest-running artist. His intricately detailed annotated sketches, often featuring a familiar ‘cut-away’ section, were not only artistically clean and sharp but also educational, offering clear explanations to complicated scenes.
Eagles’ fascinating and educational cutaway illustrations weathered the changes to the comic throughout the 1950s and 1960s, running with few gaps from the ‘New Gas Turbine Electric Loco’ in the first issue to the ‘Gas Turbine Truck’ in the penultimate issue Vol. 20 No.16 (19th April, 1969). Both these cutaways were illustrated by Ashwell Wood who was by far the most prolific cutaway artist Eagle had, contributing almost two thirds of the nearly 960 cutaways published in the weekly title.
He also produced a cutaway in the Dan Dare Spacebook, articles in the first five Eagle Annuals and a factual series of illustrated features in the weekly comic entitled ‘In Her Majesty’s Lifetime’ which ran from Vol 3 No. 46 (20th February 1953) to Vol. 4 No. 4. (1st May, 1953).
In the early years of EAGLE, it wasn’t uncommon for Wood’s cutaways to be published every week for up to two months at a time before another artist’s would appear. This shows that he must have been able to regularly research, design, paint and deliver these complex illustrations in around a week, working at an angled art board on a table with an anglepoise lamp adding extra illumination to that provided by nearby windows.
During his entire time working for EAGLE, Leslie Ashwell Wood lived in the same house at Willesden Green in north-west London and later, when he passed away in 1973, he had only recently completed a 12-part small landscape hardback series for Benwig Books known as ‘Inside Information.’
Leslie Ashwell Wood was one of the highest-paid Eagle artists, his renumeration being £42 per cutaway, while Hubert Redmill earned £36 15s and Laurence Dunn £31 10s.
When working for ‘Eagle’ he began each cutaway by making highly detailed pencil sketches but it is not clear whether he then painted directly over these or just used them as a guide. It has also been proven in more recent times that he was personally responsible for the cutaway text rather than a writer or one of the ‘EAGLE’ editorial team.
The accuracy of his illustrations is rarely questioned, though it is clear that at times internal detail of certain military subjects was likely to have been educated guesswork. An EAGLE cutaway of April 1958 of the English Electric P1B (later developed into the Lightning) drew the unwanted attention of the authorities who were concerned that the ‘Official Secrets Act’ was being contravened. Ashwell Wood was compelled to prove otherwise!
It is known that Marcus Morris, the founder of Eagle, received several ‘D’ notices from the government attempting to prevent what were considered to be military secrets being published as illustrations in a children’s comic.
The following section of this webpage is divided into six parts.
Part One features images of all cutaways that have been proven without doubt to have been drawn by L.A.W. for the Odhams Wartime and early post-war Public Information books published between 1942 and 1950.
Part Two covers the articles illustrated by him in the three early Odhams Children’s Wonder Books between 1946 and 1949.
Part Three is a gallery of L.A.W’s cutaways drawn for the weekly ‘EAGLE’ Boy’s newspaper/comic between 1950 and 1969 relating to Civil Aviation, Railway Locomotives & other Motive Power, Road Transport and Commercial Shipping.
Part Four provides information on the series of ‘Eagle Books of’ and ‘Eagle New Books of’ with a separate gallery showing any cutaways featured.
Part Five includes information on the contents and features a scrolling gallery of the twelve hardback and four softback volumes of the Benwig Books ‘Inside Information’ series published between 1969 and 1971.
Part Six rounds off this webpage with the four Eagle compilation volumes and includes a complete list of all the cutaways featured within their covers.
Section under development as at October 2023 - covering a large number of books and pages it is likely to be the last section of this webpage completed.
The following gallery does not claim to be fully comprehensive as some drawings, diagrams and cutaways featured in this set of volumes are unsigned so they may or may not be the product of Leslie Ashwell Wood.
What is certain, however, is that every single one bearing his famous and highly recognisable signature is included.
To view a gallery of the front covers of all volumes that make up this collection, regardless of whether they include the artwork of L.A.W., please refer to the 'Odhams 1942-1950' section of this 'World of Transport Books' website.
Britain's Wonderful Fighting Forces - Published 1942 - Print Code: S.742
In the early post-war years, around the time that Ashwell Wood was making his illustrative contributions to the 6" x 9" Transport and Industry public information books published by Odhams Press (see previous section), he was also illustrating various articles relating to transport subjects for a number of their Children's Wonder Books.
The first of these appeared in the original (1946) edition of 'The Children's Wonder Book in Colour,' and was a ten-page chapter on 'the 'Wonders of Modern Transport' notable for featuring one of his very early airliner cutaways of the Avro Tudor and written by B. Webster Smith.
The full article is reproduced below for your enjoyment as a 'manual scrolling gallery' and represents a sample of what was included in such publications of the time - arrow right for the next image. This is followed by further similar chapters from later editions of the same title.
The Children's Wonder Book In Colour published 1946 - by Various Authors - Pages: 192 - ISBN: Pre-ISBN - Printer Code: T.1146.X. RRP: Unknown - Dimensions 9" x 12" - Dark Blue Board Portrait Hardback with golden indented image. Art Pictorial Dust Jacket included.
The Children's Wonder Book In Colour No.2 published 1948 - by Various Authors - Pages: unpaginated - ISBN: Pre-ISBN - Printer Code: S.948.Z. RRP: Unknown - Dimensions 8.75" x 12" - Dark Red Board Portrait Hardback with golden indented image. Art Pictorial Dust Jacket included.
The Children's Wonder Book In Colour No.3 published 1949 - by Various Authors - Pages: 192 - ISBN: Pre-ISBN - Printer Code: S.949.Z. RRP: Unknown - Dimensions 9" x 12" - Dark Red Board Portrait Hardback with golden indented image. Art Pictorial Dust Jacket included.
Section under development as at October 2023.
Leslie Ashwell Wood's fame is secured for all time as being the most prolific 'Cutaway Artist' for the Hulton Press comic publication 'Eagle' - other high volume artists for Hulton's famous self-styled 'boy's newspaper' being John Batchelor, Roy Cross, Laurence Dunn, Walkden Fisher and Hubert Redmill.
Many other less well-known artists and illustrators were used for Eagle cutaways and diagrams in addition to those quoted above, but individually on a much smaller scale.
Here is some further information on three of the better-known Eagle artists that worked alongside Ashwell-Wood in the 1950s and 60s:
Laurence Dunn was also a well-respected author and illustrator of shipping and other nautical books during the 1950s and 60s (see section on 'Adlard Coles Recognition' in this 'World of Transport Books' website). Roy Cross was probably best known for painting the illustrations featured on the boxes of Airfix Models but was also a renowned artist in his own right. John Batchelor has had a long career illustrating transport and industry subjects and after 'Eagle' was employed to illustrate Purnell's famous War histories as well as many series by Phoebus and Orbis. In more recent years he was the artist employed to illustrate a three-part aviation encyclopedia published by Rebo.
The following four sections comprise scans of selected cutaways taken from my personal collection of Eagle comics, focussing purely on those drawn by Leslie Ashwell-Wood, using enhanced imaging software to maximise quality.
The images below are not a fully comprehensive gallery but are representative samples of those falling into the four categories outlined, which should be of interest to transport enthusiasts. The cutaways are presented in chronological order of the year they first appeared in 'Eagle.'
Ashwell Wood drew many cutaways for 'Eagle' including other subjects such as military aircraft, agricultural vehicles, naval vessels and industrial infrastructure which are not included here but samples of these may possibly be found using other internet resources. Earlier black and white versions of cutaways that fall into the above four categories drawn for various Odhams publications can be viewed in section one of this webpage. Coincidentally, publication of 'Eagle' was taken over by Odhams Press from 1960 onwards.
The scans below have their limitations in that it is not always possible to read the accompanying narrative. If you treat them purely as pictorial examples of Ashwell Wood's work, actual cutaways or the complete original comics in which they featured are frequently advertised for sale on ebay, if a particular image or set of images takes your fancy!
Arrow right below to view the next image in sequence. If you have a touch-screen laptop you can move them along with your finger.
Title: 'The Stratocruiser Speedbird' - Eagle Comic Publication Year: 1950 - Pictured: Boeing 377-10-32 Stratocruiser C/N 15974 Registration G-AKGH - Airline: B.O.A.C. - built 1949 - Total Civil Stratocruisers built: 56.
Section under development as at October 2023.
This set of volumes were based broadly on the transport and industry articles of the 'Eagle' comics and annuals of the 1950s and 1960s.
Other non-transport & Industry volumes as well as those dedicated to Modelling in the 'Eagle Book of'series not included here are "Hobbies," "Magic," "Model Boats," "Police and Detection," "Spacecraft Models" and "Sport."
Not all of the volumes in the second gallery section below included cutaways and where this is the case, only the front cover of the book is shown with a note highlighting the fact that none were featured.
Towards the end of his life (between 1969 and 1971), Ashwell-Wood is believed to have had some involvement in the setting up of publisher ‘Benwig Books’ and for them he produced 12 landscape hardbacks of brand new transport-related cutaways aimed at 'boys of all ages.'.
Four of these were also produced as softbacks.
The 12 hardback titles were as follows:
Civil Aircraft
Modern Ships
Trains Today
Military Aircraft
Space Travel
Naval Ships
Racing Cars
Hovercraft
Exploring Under The Sea
Famous Steam Trains
World Car Speed Records
Tanks and Armoured Cars
The Softback versions (front covers with black background and silhouettes with pink writing and triangle) are believed to only consist of the following four titles but it is possible others were published. So far, however, I have established no hard evidence of the existence of any others.
Civil Aircraft
Modern Ships
Trains Today
Military Aircraft
Inside Information on Civil Aircraft - Author & Illustrator: Leslie Ashwell Wood - published by Benwig Books 1969 - 7.875" x 6.25" Art Pictorial Cover Landscape Hardback - SBN 901-798-061. Contents: Super VC-10, Beagle 206, Boeing 747, H.P. Jetstream, Concorde, Short Skyvan, Lockheed Airbus, HS Trident, Aerocar & Future Rocket.
In 1988 a renewed interest in the 'Eagle' era cutaways and comic strips coincided with the publication of a new title: 'The Eagle Book of Cutaways.' Although there had been a fairly large cadre of Eagle artists, this focussed entirely on the drawings of Leslie Ashwell Wood, with an introduction by Denis Gifford.
It was published by Webb & Bower - an imprint of Michael Joseph.
In 2007, 8 and 9 a set of three compilation volumes of Cutaways and Comic Strips was published stimulating another spate of 'Eagle Comic Revival.'
The scrolling gallery of the front cover images of these four books can be found at the end of the following narrative including salient publishing details:
Below is a list of cutaways featured in each publication, all of which had appeared previously in Eagle Comics or Eagle Annuals at one time or another. Images of many of these are featured in the 'Eagle Comic 1950-1969' section above.
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The Eagle Book of Cutaways (1988): - Edited by Denis Gifford - published by Webb & Bower
LAND:
A Royal Car: The Daimler Straight Eight
The British Car of 1953
The Frisky: The Meadows Miniature Car
The Last of London's Trams and Trolleybuses
The Routemaster - The world's most up to date bus
Britain's Latest Fire-Engines - The AEC Merryweather
Bluebird Seven - Donald Campbell's Jet-Engined Racing Car
Britain's 52-Ton Super Tank - the Centurion
Britain's First Streamlined Express - The Silver Link
The Coronation Scot Express
Battle of Britain Class Locomotive
The World's Longest Non-Stop Train - The Elizabethan
The New Gas Turbine Locomotive - The 18000
The Inter-City Diesel Railcar
Amazing Underground Flying and Crossover Junctions.
SEA:
The New 'Empress of Britain.'
The Antarctic Ship 'Tottan.'
The Latest Unsinkable Motor Lifeboat
Fibre-Glass Thames Police Launch
The Crusader - John Cobb's Jet Speedboat
The Hovercraft Air-Cushion Machine - The Saunders-Roe SR-N1
HMS Eagle - The New Wonder Aircraft Carrier
World's Fastest Torpedo Boat - The Brave Borderer
Crossing the Atlantic Underwater - The A Class Andrew submarine
AIR:
The First Atlantic Flight - The Vickers Vimy Biplane
A Famous Airliner of the Past- The Handley Page 42
A Typical British Flying Boat - The Short Solent
The First Four-Jet Airliner in the World - The De Havilland Comet
The New Britannia - The Bristol Britannia
A Superb New Airliner - The Vickers VC-10
TWISS-SSH - 1132 Miles an Hour - The Fairey Delta 2
The Flaming Pencil - The Bristol 188
The Battle of Britain Aircraft - The Spitfire and the Hurricane
The Submarine-Hunting 'Seamew.'
The Famous 'Blenheim' Fighter-Bomber - The Bristol Blenheim
The Duke's Helicopter - The Westland-Sikorsky S-55
One of the World's Fastest Fighters - The Hawker Hunter F1
TOMORROW:
Britain's Latest Atomic Research Station - Dounreay
The Atomic Submarine
The Atomic Locomotive
The Atomic-Powered Aircraft Carrier
A 200MPH Overhead Monorail Car
A Flying Wing Jet Airliner of the Future
Breaking the Space Barrier - Space Satellites
The Anastasia - Dan Dare's Spaceship
FLASHBACK: THE FIFTIES
The Years of Progress 1950-1960 'Eagle' is Ten
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The Eagle Annual of the Cutaways (2008): - Edited by Daniel Tatarsky - published by Orion Books.
NB: Cutaways drawn by other Eagle Artists in addition to L.A.W. are also included below with the artist stated or noted as 'artist unsigned' in brackets. Where no information is stated in brackets the cutaways were drawn definitively by Ashwell Wood.
For cutaway value for money, this is probably the best 'compilation' volume available featuring an impressive total of 146 cutaway drawings from the broadest spectrum of Eagle Artists.
Endpapers - Examples of original artwork - some were published some were not.
London's New Landmark - The Post Office Tower (Geoffrey Wheeler) - Page 5
The Bentley Continental (Hubert Redmill) - Pages 8 & 9
The World's Largest Passenger Locomotive - Pages 10 & 11
The Modern Refuse-Collector - Pages 12 & 134
Merryweather Turntable Ladder Fire Escape (Paul B. Mann) - Pages 14 & 15
Fordson Motor Tractor (Paul B. Mann) - Pages 145 & 15
A Record Breaker - The Austin A40 (Artist unsigned) - Pages 16 & 17
The Carrimore Car Transporter (Laurence Dunn) - Pages 16 & 17
London's Wonderful Underground Railway - Pages 18 & 19
A Giant Diesel-Electric Locomotive - Pages 18 & 19
The Dome of Discovery (Artist unsigned) - Pages 20 & 21
The World's Largest Underwater Tunnel (Artist unsigned) - Pages 22 & 23
Rules of the Road for Ships at Sea - Pages 22 & 23
A 15-ton Diesel Road Roller - Pages 24 & 25
Thunderbird - Guided Weapon for the British Army - Pages 24 & 25
A Rotary Snow-Plough in Action - Pages 26 & 27
Little America 5 'Antarctic Village.' (Walkden Fisher) Pages 26 & 27
Design of the Modern Car - Pages 28 & 29
The B.M.C. 7-Ton Diesel Truck (Walkden Fisher) Pages 28 & 29)
The Modern Popular Family Car - Pages 30 & 31
Business-Man's Jetliner - Handley Page 113 - never flew project only - Pages 30 & 31
World's largest Freighter Aircraft - Blackburn Beverley - Pages 32 & 33
Hydro-Electric Power - Pages 34 & 35
The Future Gas-Turbocar - Pages 34 & 35
The High Speed Gas Turbine Coach (Hubert Redmill) - Pages 36 & 37
A 200 m.p.h. Overhead Monorail Car - Pages 36 & 37
The Eagle Super Space-Ship - Pages 38 & 39
The Record-Breaking M.G. Ex179 (Artist unsigned) - Pages 38 & 39
The Background to Pure Milk - Pages 40 & 41
The 'Air Horse' Helicopter - Pages 42 & 43
Bringing 10,000 tons of food to our shores - Pages 42 & 43
Volcanoes - The World's Greatest Explosion (Walkden Fisher) - Pages 44 & 45
The 'Creed' Salvage Ship (Laurence Dunn) - Pages 44 & 45
A Supersonic Jet Bomber of Tomorrow - Pages 46 & 47
The Sunbeam S7 (Hubert Redmill) - Pages 46 - 47
The Channel Tunnel - Pages 48 & 49
Shell Drill For Oil at Sea (Artist unsigned) - Pages 50 & 51
A Dredging Operation (John S. Smith) - Pages 50 & 51
Britain's 52 ton Super Tank - Pages 52 & 53
Britain's Finest Field Gun - Pages 52 & 53
A T.W.A. Constellation Skyliner - Pages 54 & 55
The 10,000M.P.H. Atomic Airliner (Gordon Davies) - Pages 54 & 55
The Airship (Laurence Dunn) - Pages 56 & 57
The Hydrofin (Laurence Dunn) - Pages 58 & 59
A Modern British Colliery - Pages 60 & 61
A Modern British Coal Mine (Artist unsigned) - Pages 60 & 61
A London Omnibus - Pages 62 & 63
A 31ft Cabin Cruiser and how it is constructed - Pages 62 & 63
Rugby Locomotive Testing Station (Walkden Fisher) - Pages 64 & 65
All-Electric Signalling - Pages 64 & 65
Compressed Air Power for Road-Breaking - Pages 66 & 67
A Potato Harvester (Charles Hurford) - Pages 66 & 67
A Giant Motor Earth Grader - Pages 68 & 69
Tractor-Digger-Shovel - Pages 68 & 69
The Black Lightning Special (Hubert Redmill) - Pages 70 & 71
Fishing by Echo-Sounding - Pages 72 & 73
Catacean - A submarine for Underwater Exploration (Laurence Dunn) - Pages 72 & 73
Wind Testing a Ship's Funnel (Laurence Dunn) - Pages 74 & 75
Underground Shelters for Sweden's Navy (Walkden Fisher) - Pages 74 & 75
Men of the Cutaways (Various) - Pages 76 & 77
Televising the Coronation Process - Pages 78 & 79
Europe's Longest Swing Bridge - Pages 80 & 81
The Crusader - Pages 80 & 81
A Mobile Dental Clinic - Pages 82 & 83
The New Woodhead Tunnel (Walkden Fisher) - Pages 82 & 83
Vertical Take-Off Airliner - Pages 84 & 85
Crossing the Atlantic Under Water - Pages 86 & 87
Shipbuilding (Walkden Fisher) - Pages 88 & 89
Half-Safe (Hubert Redmill) - Pages 88 & 89
Triumph T.R.2. (Hubert Redmill) - Pages 90 & 91
Ariel Leader (Roy Cross) - Pages 90 & 91
The Fairview Amazon - A home on Wheels (Roy Cross) - Pages 92 & 93
Motorway - Pages 92 & 93
A Rear-Engined Double Deck Bus - Pages 94 & 95
How Gasholders Work (Walkden Fisher) - Pages 94 & 95
The Romance of Oil - Pages 96 & 97
Oil Refining (Gerald Palmer) - Pages 96 & 97
Motorway Express - Pages 98 & 99
24-ton Road Grain Carrier - Pages 98 & 99
Hump Marshalling Yard - Pages 100 & 101
Britain's Fastest Train - The Bristolian - Pages 100 & 101
Inside the Kitchen's of the Empress of Canada - Pages 102 & 103
The Bloodhound - Pages 104 & 105
New Metropolitan Line Rolling Stock (Gerald Palmer) - Pages 106 & 107
Last of London's Trams & Trolleybuses - Pages 106 & 107
Avro 748 New feeder Liner - Pages 108 & 109
New British Landing Craft for Nigeria - Pages 108 & 109
World Record-Breaking Cars - Pages 110 & 111
A Supersonic Wind Tunnel (Walkden Fisher) - Pages 110 & 111
Project Mercury (Roy Cross) - Pages 112 & 113
Scammell Super-Constructor - Pages 114 & 115
The Wulfrunian - Pages 114 & 115
The Famous Blenheim Fighter-Bomber - Pages 116 & 117
Christmas Supplies for the Jungle - Pages 118 & 119
London's Christmas Traffic - Pages 120 & 121
How the Xmas mails go by Robot Underground - Pages 120 & 121
The Frisky - Pages 122 & 123
Her Majesty's Xmas Mails - Pages 122 & 123
Eagle Christmas Greetings round the world - Pages 124 & 125
Atomic-Powered Electricity for Christmas - Pages 124 & 125
Ringing In he New Year (Artist unsigned) - Pages 126 & 127
Christmas in the Persian Gulf - Page 128
Ground Servicing the VC-10 - Page 131
The Ford Falcon Compact (Roy Cross) - Page 132
North American X-15 (Roy Cross) - Page 133
Inside the Airedale (Roy Cross) - Page 134
Retirement for Mallard - Page 135
Atlas 'D' (Geoffrey Wheeler) - Page 136
Telstar (Geoffrey Wheeler) - Page 137
Super New Luxury Yacht The Radiant II (Laurence Dunn) - Page 138
Modern Skyvan (Page 139)
The Merceded Benz 220 SEb Coupe (Roy Cross) - Page 140
M. G. Midget (Artist unsigned) - Page 141
Watterways (Artist unsigned) - Pages 142 & 143
The New Woolwich Ferry (Bruce Cornwell) - Page 144
The JCB 4 Hydraulic Excavator (Geoffrey Wheeler) - Page 145
Heavy Duty Articulated Lorry - Page 146
Le Tourneau Cross-Country Freighter (Gordon) - Page 147
The Scopitone Colour Film juke-box (Artist unsigned) - Page 148
The Robotug System (Geoffrey Wheeler) - Page 149
The Caerphilly Castle (Geoffrey Wheeler) - Page 150
Flip Ship (J. H. Batchelor) - Page 151
The Ballerina Midget Racing Aeroplane (Roy Cross) - Page 152
The Martin-Baker Ejection Sheet (J. H. Batchelor) - Page 153
Speedfreight British Railways (Artist unsigned) - Page 154
The Vickers Hovertruck (Geoffrey Wheeler) - Page 155
R.A.F. Belvedere - Page 156
Concorde - The Supersonic Jetliner of Tomorrow - Page 157
Moving Staircase (Artist unsigned) - Page 158
Faster Faster Faster - Page 159
Drag Challenger from Britain (Artist unsigned) - Page 160
The Red Pelicans - Page 161
Destination Moon Part Two (J. H. Batchelor) - Page 162
Polaroid Electric Eye Land Camera (Artist unsigned) - Page 163
Hit-Parade Guitar (J. H. Batchelor) - Page 164
Roving Reporter - A B.B.C. Television Mobile Control Room (Gerald Palmer) - Page 165
Britain's New Road Bridges - Page 166
Birth of a Giant - Page 167
Tip-Up Cars and Two-Level Towns - Pages 168 & 169
The Do-It-Yourself Petrol Pump - Page 170
The Sausage Car (Artist unsigned) - Page 171
'Living-it-Up' - Page 172
Points to Remember - Page 173
Cars of Tomorrow - Page 174
Cathedral for the Space Age - Page 175
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Eagle Annual - Best of the 1950s Comic (2007): - Edited by Daniel Tatarsky - published by Orion Books.
This volume features a broad mix of articles from Comic Strips and adverts to 'letters to the editor' as well as cutaways. Only the cutaway content, however, is listed below:
NB: Cutaways drawn by other Eagle Artists in addition to L.A.W. are also included below with the artist stated or noted as 'artist unsigned' in brackets. Where no information is stated in brackets the cutaways were drawn definitively by Ashwell Wood.
The New Gas Turbine Locomotive - the 18000 - Pages 10 & 11
Amazing Underground Flying and Crossover Junctions - Pages 16 & 17
The Rail Depot - Pages 22 & 23
How Eagle is Produced - Pages 26 & 27
A Flying Wing Jet Airliner of the Future - Pages 30 & 31
The Dome of Discovery (Laurence Dunn) - Pages 34 & 35
The King Speaks - Pages 40 & 41
How Electricity is Distributed - Pages 48 & 49
Gliding and Sailing Flight - Pages 52 & 53
H.M.S. Eagle - Pages 56 & 57
The Routemaster - The World's most up-to-date bus - Pages 62 & 63
The German Pocket Battleship Admiral Graf Spee (Walkden Fisher) - Pages 68 & 69
British Cars for Export - The Vauxhall Velox - Pages 76 & 77
The Lambretta 125 1(d) Motor Scooter (Hubert Redmill) - Pages 84 & 85
The Coronation Naval Review - Pages 90 & 91
The British Car of 1953 - Pages 94 & 95
Phosphates from a Coral Island in the Pacific Ocean - Pages 100 & 101
The Dentist comes to Visit - Pages 106 & 107
Our Vital Water Supply - Pages 114 & 115
30 Years from Now - A Future Commercial Airport - Pages 120 & 121
Submarine Escape - Latest Methods (Laurence Dunn) - Pages 126 & 127
Breaking the Space Barrier - Pages 128 & 129
Water Tank Testing the Britannia - Pages 136 & 137
The Avenue of the Future - Pages 144 & 145
The Romance of Ice Cream - Pages 152 & 153
A Floating Fire Engine - Pages 170 & 171
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Eagle Annual - Best of the 1960s Comic (2009): - Edited by Daniel Tatarsky - published by Orion Books.
This volume features a broad mix of articles from Comic Strips and adverts to 'letters to the editor' as well as cutaways. Only the cutaway content, however, is listed below:
NB: Cutaways drawn by other Eagle Artists in addition to L.A.W. are also included below with the artist stated or noted as 'artist unsigned' in brackets. Where no information is stated in brackets the cutaways were drawn definitively by Ashwell Wood.
Bluebird 7 - Pages 10 & 11
The Epic of the Altmark (Artist unsigned) - Pages 10 & 11
Greeves 24TCS Scottish Trials Model (Roy Cross) - Pages 18 & 19
The First Transatlantic Airliner - British Airship R34 (Walkden Fisher) - Pages 18 & 19
The Years of Progress 1950-1960 Eagle is Ten - Pages 26 & 27
A French Experimental Aircraft - The Baroudeur SE-5000 (Walkden Fisher) - Pages 26 & 27
One-Stop Hop in the New Jet Prop - Dart Herald New Feeder Airliner - Page 47
Retirement for Mallard - World's Fastest Steam Locomotive - Page 55
The Cooper/Climax V/8 (P. J. Ashmore) - Page 73
Luxury Car in Miniature - The Riley Elf (Artist unsigned) - Page 74
R.A.F. Belvedere - Page 96
A Great Little Sports Car (Artist unsigned) - Page 97
Concorde - The Supersonic Jetliner of Tomorrow - Page 102
The Railway of Tomorrow (Artist unsigned) - Page 108
Launch Vehicle Line Up (Artist unsigned) - Page 123
A Steamer Lives On (Geoffrey Wheeler) - Page 129
The Flying Saucers of Today and Tomorrow - Pages 156 & 157
Nippy Little Monkey Bike - Page 166
Portable Hospital - Page 185
Future Airport in London's Centre - Page 187
Roads on Stilts - Page 191
The Eagle Book of Cutaways published 1988 - Author Leslie Ashwell Wood edited by Denis Gifford - Pages: 95 - ISBN: 978-0-86350-285-7 - RRP: Unknown - Dimensions 10.5" x 9" - Red Board Landscape Hardback with Art Pictorial Dust Jacket