Lou Scannon wrote:
"His name was Neville Norway actually. He decided to use the name "Shute" (his mother's maiden name) so that his boss, Mr B. Wallis and his firm, Vickers, wouldn't know that their Chief Calculator on the R100 also wrote novels! He eventually became his own boss when he formed an outfit called "Airspeed".
Try reading "Slide Rule" the autobiography of an engineer."
His name was Nevil Shute Norway, from which he took his nom-de-plume.
His mother's maiden name was Mary Louisa Gadsden. The name Shute traces back to the Cornish roots of his father, Arthur Hamilton Norway.
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