{"title":"Antiquarian","description":"Antiquarian Books","products":[{"product_id":"the-cockpit-w-e-johns","title":"The Cockpit | W. E. Johns","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE COCKPIT\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eW. E. Johns\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJOHN HAMILTON, London, 1934\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent collection of WW1 flying stories, published by John Hamilton Ltd in the ‘Ace’ series, undated, but 1934 (there is an ‘Xmas 1934’ gift inscription on the half title page). The book includes eight stories, with contributions by W. E. Johns, the creator of ‘Biggles’, Arch Whitehouse, Kenneth Quintrell and Rudolf Stark. Quintrell’s ‘Hoodoo’ and ‘The Unforgiving Minute’ are the highlights, while W. E. 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She was married on 26 April 1922 to \u003cstrong\u003eGerald Foy Ray Lenanton (1896–1952)\u003c\/strong\u003e, son of a timber agent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarola's war work as a probationary VAD nurse in Oxford, Dorset, London and France provided the inspiration for poems that were published in \u003ci\u003eThe Menin Road and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1919). Her poems also appeared in the 1931 edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Bookman Treasury of Living Poets. \u003c\/i\u003eSome of her work in the 1920s and 1930s appeared initially under her married name. Gerald Lenanton was knighted in 1946 after serving as director of home timber production in World War II. 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By the time of the First World War millions of shrapnel shells would be used in trench warfare on the Western Front. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMajor Richard Sommer Seton:\u003c\/strong\u003e served in India as an officer with the \u003cspan class=\"Yjhzub\"\u003eMadras Artillery\u003c\/span\u003e of the East India Company's army from 1813. He was promoted to Captain in 1825, Major in 1838, and was given the honorary rank of Lt-Colonel in 1854. The Madras Artillery was part of the Madras Army, which was one of the three presidential armies of the British East India Company. It was formed in 1748 and its officers were European. 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The first recorded use of shrapnel by the British was in 1804 against the Dutch at Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam in Surinam. The Duke of Wellington's armies used it from 1808 in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo, and Wellington wrote admiringly of its effectiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore the introduction of shrapnel, artillery used 'canister shot' - a tin or canvas container filled with small iron or lead balls instead of the usual cannonball - to defend themselves from infantry or cavalry attack. When fired, the container burst open at the muzzle of the gun, producing the effect of an oversized shotgun shell.  Canister shot was only effective up to around 300 metres, and for longer ranges, solid shot or 'common shell' —a hollow cast-iron sphere filled with black powder — was used. Shrapnel's innovation was to combine the shotgun effect of canister shot with a time fuze to burst the canister and disperse the shot after it had left the gun. His shell was a hollow cast-iron sphere filled with a mixture of musket balls and gunpowder, fitted with a crude time fuze. If the fuze was set correctly then the shell would explode either in front of or above the intended objective, and the shrapnel balls would carry on with the residual velocity of the shell. The explosive charge in the shell was just enough to break the casing rather than scatter the shot in all directions. Shrapnel's  invention increased the effective range of canister shot from 300 metres to about 1,100 metres. Shrapnel called his device 'spherical case shot', but in time it came to be named after him, with the term 'Shrapnel Shell' eventually being adopted by the British Government in 1852.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe initial design suffered from the potentially catastrophic problem that friction between the shot and gunpowder during firing could sometimes cause premature ignition of the shell. Various solutions were tried with limited success, until in 1852 Colonel Boxer proposed used a diaphragm to separate the bullets from the bursting charge, which proved successful and was adopted the following year. Lieutenant-Colonel Boxer adapted his design again in 1864 to produce shrapnel shells for the new rifled muzzle-loader (RML) guns. The gunpowder charge was now in the shell base with a tube running through the centre of the shell from the time fuse in the nose to the charge in the base. In the 1870s William Armstrong introduced a revised design with the bursting charge in the head and the shell wall made of steel, which was much thinner than the previous cast-iron shells. The final shrapnel shell design adopted in the 1880s, known at the time as 'Boxer Shrapnel',  bore little similarity to Henry Shrapnel's original design other than its spherical bullets and time fuse. 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