Boeing’s prototype B-17, with the factory designation of Model 299, was
designed by a team of engineers led by E. Gifford Emery and Edward
Curtis Wells, and was built a the company’s own expense.
Meg Moorat (aka Miss Mercury) who was a WVS motorcycle messenger in London during the war, riding a Triumph Twin in the streets of Whitehall, 1941 [962×1096]
