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Description: | Camera Type 18.
No 249
Lens No 87519
Houghton-Butcher Mfg. Co. Ltd
London 1918
The majority of the early First World War period aerial cameras available to the Royal Flying Corps were the folding type with bellows, which took rather unsatisfactory oblique pictures .
A more robust camera was required, that could be either hand-held or mounted on the aircraft, and the Type 18 Camera was such a camera.
The Camera Type 18 has a rigid body, with fixed handles on either side, together with fold-down sights top and bottom, and took 5" x 4" glass plates. This particular example was manufactured in 1918.
(Component parts: camera body)
Original Image | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Houghton-Butcher Manufacturing Co Ltd, London | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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