This book, Gloster Aircraft Company by Derek N. James, was first published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by Fonthill Media. ISBN 978-1-78155-259-9. Paperback, 186 pages, illustrated with black and white photographs and a central colour plate section, covering the company's history from its 1915 origins to its final projects in the early 1960s, including the Grebe, Goldfinch, Gauntlet, Gladiator, Hurricane, Meteor and Javelin. Includes appendices on selected project designs, production and type data, and a where-are-they-now survey of surviving aircraft.

The Gloster Aircraft Company began in 1917 as the Gloucestershire Aircraft Company, based initially in Cheltenham before moving to Brockworth and later Hucclecote. The name was shortened to Gloster in 1926, reportedly because customers outside Britain found it easier to pronounce and spell. Over more than four decades the company produced a series of well known RAF aircraft, from the Grebe and Gamecock biplanes of the 1920s through the Gladiator, the RAF's last biplane fighter, to the Meteor, Britain's first operational jet fighter, and the delta winged Javelin all weather fighter of the 1950s. Gloster also built Hawker Hurricanes under sub-contract during the Second World War. The company merged with Armstrong Whitworth in 1961 and the name was retired when Hawker Siddeley reorganised its product range in the years that followed.

OK condition, with wear.