Noel Pemberton Billing
Aug 2005, Vol. 150, No. 4
By Dean Juniper
History has not placed Noel Pemberton Billing (1880-1948) amongst the pantheon of twentieth-century icons as it has Wells and Cripps. Nevertheless, his career has a symbolic, even emblematic quality. It is so varied and versatile that only excerpts and summaries will prevent the historian from narrative excess.We have to commence, therefore, in his thirty-third year, in fact, when, after an early career, involving soldiering in the South African War, pioneering housing development, managing steam yachts and editing the first aeronautical magazine, he arrives in 1913 in Southampton to launch his flying-boat building firm, Pemberton Billing Ltd.
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By Dean Juniper
History has not placed Noel Pemberton Billing (1880-1948) amongst the pantheon of twentieth-century icons as it has Wells and Cripps. Nevertheless, his career has a symbolic, even emblematic quality. It is so varied and versatile that only excerpts and summaries will prevent the historian from narrative excess.We have to commence, therefore, in his thirty-third year, in fact, when, after an early career, involving soldiering in the South African War, pioneering housing development, managing steam yachts and editing the first aeronautical magazine, he arrives in 1913 in Southampton to launch his flying-boat building firm, Pemberton Billing Ltd.
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