The book, Airspeed Aircraft Since 1931 reviews in detail the many aircraft manufactured and projects undertaken by Airspeed during the twenty years of its life as an independent or quasi-independent company.  "Airspeed Aircraft Since 1931" also gives much of the history and thinking behind the designs, describes long-forgotten incidents involved in development flying and adds context to this story by providing a detailed, human history of Airspeed along with its earlier and later operating entities.  "Airspeed Aircraft Since 1931" also tells the inside story of the problems and minor technical disasters that seemed to follow the development of the Ambassador/Elizabethan medium-haul piston-engine airliner.  This book describes these and explains the reasons for the year-late delivery of these aircraft to BEA and why the decision was made by Airspeed and the de Haviland Company to cut their losses by only manufacturing twenty Elizabethan airliners.  Also of note and interest is the almost first-hand information included in this book about test-development crises and the way in which these challenges were overcome.  Considerable information is also reviewed concerning the Oxford as the author of this book flew the type as a ferry and test pilot.  The major sections of " Airspeed Aircraft Since 1931" are as follows: 1) Introduction; 2) Acknowledgements; 3) History Of The Company; 4) AS.1 Tern; 5) AS.4 Ferry; 6) AS.5 Courier; 7) AS.6 Envoy; 8) AS.8 Viceroy; 9) AS.10, AS.40-43 And AS.46 Oxford; 10) AS.30, AS.38 And AS.50 Queen Wasp; 11) AS.39 Fleet Shadower; 12) AS.45 Cambridge; 13) AS.51 Horsa Mk I, AS.52/53 And AS.58 Horsa Mk II; 14) AS.57 Ambassador; 15) AS.65 Consul; 16) Airspeed Projects including (AS.9, AS.14 & AS.24, AS.15, AS.16-23, AS.27, AS.29, AS.31, AS.32-35, AS.36, AS.37, AS.44, AS.47, AS.48 & AS.56, AS.49, AS.54, AS. 55, AS.59 Ambassador Mk II, AS.60 Ayrshire, AS.64 & AS.67 & AS.69); 17) Appendix I - Airspeed Type Summary; 18) Appendix II - Individual Aircraft Histories; 19) Appendix III - AS.10 Oxford I & II, AS.46 Oxford V, RAF Serials By Manufacturers And Marks; 20) Appendix IV - AS.51 Horsa I And AS.58 Horsa II - Manufacturers And RAF Serial; 21) Aircraft Resulting From Recommendations Of Second Brabazon Committee (1943) and 22) Index.  In addition to an informative narrative, " Airspeed Aircraft Since 1931" includes the following features: 1) Approximately 145 black and white vintage photographs and 2) About 27 three-view black and white aircraft illustrations.  "Airspeed Aircraft Since 1931" is sure to appeal to anyone interested in British aviation history during the first half of the twentieth-century.  This book is 206-pages and while it is in overall excellent condition, it does have several small stains on pages IV, V, VI and VIII.  The author is H.A. Taylor.  Edition published in 1970.