does anyone by any chance have a copy of

[kareina]

Title: The Present Position of the internal combustion engine as a power source
Author: A. A. Griffith
Date: November 1929

clovis_t tried to get a copy via UTAS document delivery for his research for his Honour's Thesis for his History degree, but they were unable to find a copy in any library with which they normally interact.

If you happen to have a copy (anything is possible with my book-loving friends, though this one might be an official report and not a book) please let us know...

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[allergicone.livejournal.com]

Wow. I just looked the title up in WorldCat, and got NOTHING. Is this a book, or a journal article?
A. A. Griffith may be Alan Arnold Griffith, in which case, you may want to try University of Illinois, as they have other works around the same time period that may be the same author.

Does he have any more info on this, other than what you've posted? Publisher, country, etc? It sounds like a position paper from the title. 8) The next thing I can think of is to look back at whatever source this reference came from, and see if they know where they got it...

[kareina.livejournal.com]

That was the information from the document delivery request. He just went back to the book in which it was cited--they give it as:

A. A. Griffith, 'The present position of the internal combustion turbine as a power-plant for aircraft, AML Report 1050A, (November 1929)

(AML = Air Ministry Laboratory)

Thanks for the suggestions!

[allergicone.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. And that change of title makes a huge difference... let me go run it on WorldCat and see what I get... ok, no dice there... but here, from Google...
on JSTOR:
Alan Arnold Griffith. 1893-1963
A. A. Rubbra
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 10, (Nov., 1964), pp. 117-136 (article consists of 21 pages) (it does mention the articles in the AML reports, from what I can see - I can't get into the article, since I don't currently have JSTOR access. 8/)

Here's another that mentions it:
The Early History of the Aircraft Gas Turbine in Britain
William Hawthorne
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Jan., 1991), pp. 79-108 (article consists of 30 pages)
Published by: The Royal Society

the other place that popped up was the UK National Archives. In some quick searching, I couldn't pinpoint it, but it's worth hunting through...
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Hope that helps, and that he can get his hands on it. I know how frustrating it can be. I got lucky - the book I really needed for my master's thesis, I could still buy! I borrowed it through ILL first, then ordered one. It took ages to get, but it's soooo worth it. I still have the book, which may be worth a small fortune now, for all I know. It's sort of a one of a kind, nothing else like it anywhere sort of book... or at least it was when I did my master's *mumble* years ago.

[clovis-t.livejournal.com]

Thank you!
The Hawthorne article is actually where I found out about the Griffith article. The biography is very interesting, and pokes a couple of holes in the thought that Whittle was pretty much solely responsible for the Jet Engine in Britain (JSTOR access is very very useful).
The national archives look to have a lot of useful things, but getting access to it is the drawback - one that shouldn't be too hard to overcome, through document delivery.