Originally Posted by
4Screwaircrew
I've just listened to Slide Rule, Nevil Shute's autobiography nothing he said there would suggest intense prejudice to me, just a concern about the way the design and construction was handled.
Shute (professionally Nevil Norway) was critical of the R101's construction. He was also concerned that government funding for R101 was bottomless in a way that money for his own firm's design was not.
Nobody who reads his books, mostly written post war, would be in any doubt that his politics were not of the left!!!