Lord Kings Norton Archive

The Aeronautical Journal 103, no. 1022 (Lord Kings Norton commemorative issue, April 1999).

Literature

Collins, Thomas Stanley Davies, and Harold Roxbee Cox. "Airship design". In The Handbook of Aeronautics. London: Gale and Polden, 1931.

Cox, Harold Roxbee, Sir. Recent work on industrial gas turbines. London: [s.n.], 1954. (Parliamentary and Scientific Committee publications).

Roxbee Cox, Harold, Sir, ed. Gas turbine principles and practice. London: Newnes, 1955.

Cox, Harold Roxbee, Sir. The coming of the Council for National Academic Awards: Summer meeting, Brighton, 10th-12th June 1964. [S.l.]: Association of Technical Institutions, 1964.

Cowan, Alan, Sir Harold Roxbee Cox and R. F. Rooke. Quality control for the manager. [S.l.]: Pergamon, 1964.

Cox, Harold Roxbee, Baron Kings Norton. Science, technology, education and management. London: British Institute of Management, 1966. (Elbourne Memorial Lectures; 12).

Garlick, J and Harold Roxbee Cox, Lord Kings Norton. Cars for cities: a study of trends in the design of vehicles with particular reference to their use in towns. London: H.M.S.O, 1967.

Kings Norton of Wotton Underwood. All my life I have been interested in ideas of precision, compactness, elegance and simplicity...: an address given to the Wynkyn de Worde Society, 25 November 1971. Hillingdon: Hillingdon Press for the Society, 1971.

Lord Kings Norton of Wotton Underwood. A wrack behind. Cranfield: Cranfield University Press, 1999.

Reports

Cox, H. Roxbee. A statistical method of investigating the relations between the elastic stiffnesses of aeroplane wings and wing-aileron flutter. London: HMSO, 1932. (Aeronautical Research Committee R&M No 1505).

Cox, H. Roxbee, and A. G. Pugsley. Theory of loss of lateral control due to wing twisting. London: HMSO, 1932. (Aeronautical Research Committee R&M No 1506).

Cox, H. Roxbee, and A. G. Pugsley. The stability of the static equilibrium of the elastic and aerodynamic actions on a wing. London: HMSO, 1932. (Aeronautical Research Committee R&M No 1509).

Cox, H. Roxbee, and D. Williams. Effect of stiff ribs on torsional stiffness of wings. London: HMSO, 1933. (Aeronautical Research Committee R&M No 1536).

Williams, D, and H. Roxbee Cox. The effect of the ribs on the stresses in the spars of a two-spar wing subjected to the most general type of loading. London: HMSO, 1933. (Aeronautical Research Committee R&M No 1538).

Cox, H. Roxbee, J. Hanson, and W. T. Sandford. Stiffness determination in certain cantilever wings. London: HMSO, 1934. (Aeronautical Research Committee R&M No 1617).

Pugsley, A. G. and H. Roxbee Cox. The aileron power of a monoplane. London: HMSO, 1934. (Aeronautical Research Committee R&M No 1640).

Cox, H. Roxbee. Abstract on the synthesis and analysis of simply-stiff frameworks. London: HMSO, 1934. (Aeronautical Research Committee R&M No 1680).

Cox, H. Roxbee. Abstract. Notes on the optimum stiffness of thin shells. London: HMSO, 1936. (Aeronautical Research Committee R&M No 1737).

Journal articles

Cox, H. Roxbee. "The external forces on an airship structure with special reference to the requirements of rigid airship design". Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society 33, no. 225 (September 1929): 725-811.
Note: The R38 Memorial Prize Paper for 1928.

Cox, H. Roxbee. "Problems involving the stiffness of aeroplane wings". Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society 38, no. 278 (February 1934): 73-107.

Cox, H. Roxbee. "Stiffness of thin shells - brief notes on the optimum stiffness obtainable for a given weight of material". Aircraft Engineering 8, 91 (September 1936): 245-246
Note: Abstract published as Aeronautical Research Committee R&M No 1737.

Cox, H. Roxbee. "On the synthesis and analysis of simply-stiff frameworks". In Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, no. 40 (October 1936): 203-216.
Note: Abstract published as Aeronautical Research Committee R&M No 1680.

Cox, H. Roxbee. "Large aeroplanes". Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society 42 no. 331 (July 1938): 591-602.
Note: Lecture read before the Weybridge Branch of the RAeS on December 1st, 1937, and before the Students' Section on March 29th, 1938.

Cox, H. Roxbee. "Looking forward: prolegomena for a detailed study of the future of British civil aviation". Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society 44 (September 1940): 681-754.
Note: The 28th Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture.

Cox, H. Roxbee. "A two-dimensional approach to three-dimensional framework problems". Journal of the London Mathematical Society 18 (1943): 20-23.

Cox, H. Roxbee. "Theorems for the synthesis of simply-stiff frameworks". Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society 49 (January 1945): 21-25.

Cox, H. Roxbee. "British aircraft gas turbines". Journal of Aeronautical Science 13 (February 1946): 53-87.
Note: The Ninth Wright Brothers Lecture.

Cox, H. Roxbee. "First Englishwoman to fly". Country Life (3 June 1954).

Cox, H. Roxbee. "The development of the gas turbine". In Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers, Part 1, no. 5 (March 1956): 121-158.
Note: The Sir Charles Parsons Memorial Lecture, 1955.

Lord Kings Norton. "Looking forward again: notes on the needs, probabilities and possibilities in aeronautics". Aeronautical Journal 73, no. 703 (July 1969): 558-563.
Note: The Seventh Handley Page Lecture.

Lord Kings Norton. "The pictures of the three favorite aerial travellers". Aeronautical Journal 74, no. 712 (April 1970): 304-306.

Lord Kings Norton. "The beginnings of ballooning". Aerospace 12, no. 7 (September 1984): 12-19.

Lord Kings Norton. "The beginnings of jet propulsion". Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts Journal 133, no. 5350 (September 1985): 705-723.
Note: The Trueman Wood Lecture.