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Description: | Portraits of pioneering aviators: E Baumann, Mrs De Beauvoir Stocks, Laurence Hall, Harry Hawker, B C Hucks, Marcus D Manton, Louis Noel, Sydney Pickles, F P Raynham, Pierre Verrier. Group photograph of early aviators including: Colonel Cody, Claude Grahame White, B C Hucks, Harry Hawker, Sydney Pickles, F P Raynham, Gustav Hamel, Marcus Manton, Pierre Verrier, Lord Cathbury, Laurence Hall, Louis Noel, E Baumann. There are also images of a number of aircraft: the first Handley Page biplane, Maurice Farman Shorthorn, Martinsyde Raymor (fueling at St John's in Newfoundland), Handley Page Atlantic (fueling), Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy (ready for flight on Lester's Filed, St John's Newfoundland, just prior to their successful trans-Atlantic flight in 1919), Willows Airship (in flight at Hendon). The collection includes other photographs taken at Hendon: aircraft ready for the start of a cross-country race, the dual controls of an early aircraft used by the Beatty School of Flying, the 100HP Anzani engine fitted to Lt Porte's Deperdussin monoplane. There are also two images taken during 1916, both including the unknown donor of the collection. The first shows two men standing beside a Smith 'Static' aero engine on test at Heenam & Froude Ltd in Worcester, and the second has two men beside the first Rolls Royce Hawk aero engine. The collection is completed by two post-1918 photographic prints of a ditched British First World War Female Tank that is covered in graffiti and carries a notice in French headed 'Syndicat d'Initiative de Reims'.
Twenty-three black and white photographic postcards (dimensions: 137mm x 85mm) some have slight creasing and a couple are tear s repaired with adhesive tape. A number of the cards have hand printed notes in green ink on the reverse.
Two black and white photographic prints (dimensions: 90mm x 65mm). Both card have pin hole damage to upper border. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown Photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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