Leslie Ashwell Wood 1903*-1973

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 sample cutaways 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, again with sample cutaways.

Part Three provides a potted history of L.A.W.'s and other cutaway artists' involvement in the ‘EAGLE’ Boy’s newspaper/comic between 1950 and 1969 and provides links to 'Ausdew's' comprehensive Eagle Cutaway sections on Flickr relating to Aeroplanes, Trucks & Buses, Railways and Shipping.

Part Four provides information on the series of ‘Eagle Books of’ and ‘Eagle New Books of’ with a front cover scrolling gallery of the transport-related editions.

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.

The following gallery shows a representitive Leslie Ashwell Wood cutaway or depictive drawing for each Odhams 'Transport and Industry' title starting with the early wartime editions and ending with'The World's Airlines and How they Work.'

If you wish to view the full set of cutaways drawn by L.A.W. in this series, these volumes are generally available on line second hand at reasonable prices although frequently the Dust Jacket is missing.

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.

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.

Examples of cutaways by Leslie Ashwell Wood that appeared in the three volumes of 'The Children's Wonder Book in Colour' between 1946 and 1949 can be seen in the scrolling galleries below. To read these books in full and view other illustrations that are featured within them, they can normally be found on line second hand at reasonable prices but dust jackets are rarely present.

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.

To view a wonderful selection of Leslie Ashwell Wood and other Eagle illustrators' transport cutaways please visit 'Ausdew's' comprehensive Flickr pages below:

(Click on these links to connect to cutaways on Aeroplanes, Trucks & Buses, Railways and Shipping in that order)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ausdew/albums/72157717081990851/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ausdew/albums/72157662557888254/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ausdew/albums/72157664842523036/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ausdew/albums/72157664322010390/

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."

Many of the 'Eagle Book of' volumes featured transport cutaways, some of which had already appeared previously in the Eagle Comics. However not every 'Book of' volume featured cutaways in the traditional 'Ashwell Wood' format.

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

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