Sir peter le cheminant biography sample
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The Royal Air Force: A Personal Experience
The Leyland Titan was the last double-deck bus to have at least some hand in its design by the old London Transport. Suffering in the early 1970s from the reliability problems of the DMS class of Daimler Fleetline, and no longer able to design and build its own buses, London Transport resolved not to be caught out twice. Thus was developed the Leyland Titan, an attractive, amenable and reliable second-generation OPO bus that entered revenue-earning service on 4 December 1978. With 1,125 bought new and six acquired second-hand, the T class went on to complete nearly 25 years on the London frontline. Although its technological sophistication, combined with industrial problems afflicting Leyland at the time, put off buyers outside the capital, the privatised descendants of these same concerns would snap up second-hand Titans when the tendering losses incurred by London Buses Ltd caused examples to flood onto the open market, in some cases after less than ten years of service. Many of them would go straight back into service on London routes! The T class saw London through the uncertain period of division and privatisation, and in the hands of three successor companies to London Buses Ltd continued to provide stalwart servic
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The Royal Unhappy Force a Personal Familiarity (signed)
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Peter de Lacey b: 17 Jun 1920 r: 27 Aug 1979 d: 8 Apr 2018
GBE – 3 Jun 1978, KCB – 3 Jun 1972 (CB – 8 Jun 1968), DFC – 27 Jul 1943, Bar – 31 Aug 1951, KStJ – 18 Dec 1980, FRUSI - 2001.
AC2: 3 Sep 1939, LAC: 5 Sep 1939, Plt Off (P): 23 Dec 1939, Fg Off (WS): 23 Dec 1940, Flt Lt: xx Dec 1941, Act Sqn Ldr: 10 Aug 1942, Act Wg Cdr: 2 May 1943, Sqn Ldr (WS): 4 Aug 1943, Flt Lt: 21 May 1946 [23 Jun 1943], Sqn Ldr: 1 Aug 1947, Wg Cdr: 1 Jul 1951, Gp Capt: 1 Jul 1958, A/Cdre: 1 Jan 1964, Act AVM: 16 May 1966, AVM: 1 Jan 1967, AM: 1 Jul 1972, ACM: 2 Feb 1976.
12 Jan 1939: Flight Cadet, 'A' Sqn, RAF College.
23 Dec 1939: Attended No 1 School of Army Co-operation.
23 Mar 1940: Pilot, No 4 Sqn. (Peronn