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Description: | Contents (plate number) ? Handwritten captions in black and blue ink:
Seaplane ?Zinyaw? [De Havilland Fox Moth Seaplane]
1. Seaplane ?Zinyaw? at hangar at Pazundaung, 1935 - Negative number: B3921(Y)
2. ?Zinyaw? about to take off at Pazundaung Foundry, 1935 - Negative number: B3921(Y)
3. ?Zinyaw? in Pazundaung Creek, 1934 - Negative number: B3921(Y)
4. ?Zinyaw? at pontoon, 1934 - Negative number: B3921(Y)
5. ?Zinyaw? at Meegyoungye, 1934 - Negative number: B3921(Y)
Rangoon Office floodlit during Jubilee Celebrations, 1935.
6. [Front view of the building] - Negative number: B6536/26
7. [Front view of the building] - Negative number: B6536/26
Pazundaung Foundry
8. Pazundaung Foundry and in front wagon bodies built for Burma Cement Co. Ltd. in 1935 - Negative number: B3921(Z)
9. [A close quarter view of a wagon body] - Negative number: B3921(Z)
10. Wagon bodies built at Pazundaung Foundry for Burma Cement Co. Ltd in 1935 [sows a line of wagon bodies with ?BCCL? large printed on each of them] - Negative number: B3922(U)
Lanywa Wall ? See Rangoon Letter No.385 of 22/5/34
11. [Shows a close view of Lanywa oil fields]- Negative number: B3922(U)
12. [Shows a distant view of Lanywa oil fields] - Negative number: B3922(U)
Rangoon Foundry Slipway ? Taken 24th Feb. 1936 at 1-0-0 P.M. Low Tide-.3
13. [Shows slipway from the left] - Negative number: B3921(W)
14. [Shows slipway from the centre] - Negative number: B3921(W)
15. [Shows slipway from the right] - Negative number: B3921(W)
Seaplanes
16. Hintha 20-2-36 [Short Scion Senior Seaplane] - Negative number: B3922(X)
Re-erection of ?Karaweik? VT-AHI at Pazundaung Foundry ? October 1936 [Short Scion Senior Seaplane]
17. [Fuselage of ?Karaweik? carried by many men towards the hangar] - Negative number: B3922(X)
18. [Fuselage of ?Karaweik? carried by many men inside the hangar] - Negative number: B3922(X)
19. [Fuselage of ?Karaweik? outside pushed from a small pier] - Negative number: B3922(X)
20. [?Karaweik? in completion inside the hangar] - Negative number: B3922(X)
21. ?Karaweik? nearing completion ? Oct. 1936 - Negative number: B3922(V)
22. -Ditto- [No more comments ? Shows a front view of the completed plane outside the hangar with one man just beside] - Negative number: B3922(V)
23. ?Karaweik? off on test flight Oct., 1936 - Negative number: B3922(V)
24. ?Karaweik? VT-AHI and ?Zinyaw? VT-AFZ at Hangar Pazundaung Foundry ? Oct., 1936 - Negative number: B3922(V)
Photographs of ?Zinyaw? after having capsized in Bassein River on 7th November, 1936.
25. [Shows the floats of the seaplane just emerging from the river] - Negative number: B3922(X)
26. [Shows the floats of the seaplane just emerging from the river with men trying to rescue it from the pier] - Negative number: B3922(X)
27. [Rescue of the seaplane] - Negative number: B3922(X)
28. [Rescue of the seaplane] - Negative number: B3922(X)
29. [Rescue of the seaplane] - Negative number: B3922(X)
30. Shway-Lin-Yon VT-AIJ for Certificate of Airworthiness ? Photograph received from Imperial Airways Ltd. 17/12/36 - Negative number: B3922(X)
31. How the Viceroy?s Mails were delivered. 13/1/37 [shows a front view of an unidentified Short Scion Senior Seaplane with three officers watching towards the camera and steam pilot launch ?Lanpya? (1915) in the background ? Handwritten in pencil in the margin: ?c/o Piner, Capts Coults[?], .. Esmonde?] - Negative number: B3922(P)
32. How the seaplane is berthed at Mandalay [shows ?Karaweik? waiting on slipway] - Negative number: B3922(P)
Photo taken 13th March 1937 Low Water 12-18 P.M. Height.3? ? See Letter No.JM/302 of 22nd March 1937
33. (1.) [Shows a slipway from the right with workers cleaning the mud towards the river] - Negative number: B3922(Q)
34. (2.) [Shows the same slipway from the left with workers cleaning the mud towards the river] - Negative number: B3922(Q)
35. (3.) [Shows the same slipway from the centre with workers cleaning the mud towards the river] - Negative number: B3922(Q)
[Photographs of seaplanes ? No captions]
36. [Front view of two unidentified Short Scion Senior Seaplanes in front of the hangar] - Negative number: B3922(O)
37. [Shows Shway-Lin-Yon VT-AIJ] - Negative number: B3922(O)
38. [Similar view to No.36] - Negative number: B3922(O)
39. [Similar view to No.36] - Negative number: B3922(O)
40. [A profile view of a unidentified Short Scion Senior Seaplane] - Negative number: B3922(M)
Loss of the ?Shway-Lin-Yon? by fire 13/8/37 [No.41 to No.50 show ?Shway-Lin-Yon? gradually burning and finally sinking]
41. 1. - Negative number: B3922(M)
42. 2. - Negative number: B3922(M)
43. 3. - Negative number: B3922(M)
44. 4. - Negative number: B3922(M)
45. 5. - Negative number: B3922(M)
46. 6. - Negative number: B3922(M)
47. 7. - Negative number: B3922(S)
48. 8. - Negative number: B3922(S)
49. 9. - Negative number: B3922(S)
50. 10. - Negative number: B3922(S)
51. Karaweik leaving Hangar 9/11/37 - Negative number: B3922(S)
[Photographs of ?Zinyaw?, most of them in continuity of Nos.3, 4 and 5]
52. Seaplane at pontoon in Pazundaung Creek - 6/12/37 - Negative number: B3922(N)
53. [Similar view to No.52] - Negative number: B3922(N)
54. Seaplane at pontoon - 3/11/34 - Negative number: B3922(N)
55. Seaplane just after leaving pontoon ? 3/11/34 - Negative number: B3922(N)
56. Seaplane taxi-ing before Rising - Negative number: B3922(N)
57. Seaplane at Pontoon in Pazaundaung Creek and Government Dockyard in the background - Negative number: B3922(N)
58. Zinyaw at Meegyoungue 24/11/34 [Very similar to No.5] - Negative number: B3922(N)
[Company?s properties]
59. Monywa Agency House ? Completed July 1940 - Negative number: B3922(R) & B6536/29
60. Mandalay Agency House from South East [handwritten in pencil: ?(built 1941)?] - Negative number: B6536/28
[Seaplanes]
61. Karaweik at Panzaundaung after flight Moulmein-Tavoy. Jan. 1937 ? Pilot Esmonde [shows a profile view with pilot and a women, apparently a passenger] - Negative number: B3922(L)
62. Off to Paz ? As Per Contra Jan. 1937 [shows a crew pushing the seaplane towards the river] - Negative number: B3922(L)
63. Preparing as above [shows a more distant view of the plane at the bottom of the slipway] - Negative number: B3922(L)
[Company?s properties]
64. [Handwritten in pencil: ?Belmont? ? Shows external view of offices] ? Negative number? [Photograph hidden at the back of last-named]
65. [No caption - handwritten text in pencil at the back of the photograph: ?Front view ? New Mandalay Office built 1940?] - Negative number: B3922(L)
66. [No caption - handwritten text in pencil at the back of the photograph: ?SE Corner taken from entrance - March 1941 - New Mandalay Office built 1940?] - Negative number: B3922(L)
67. [No caption - This much larger and older looking photograph with roughly cut edges seems to belong to another album ? Shows a large storage full of ropes, barrels, tanks?] - Negative number: B6536/2
[At the very end of the album, are to be found two postcards: one showing the ?School House Slayton-Minn? with comments at the back, a second one showing ?Silver Medals of the Trial of the Seven Bishops ? British Museum? and addressed to ?Professor G. Callender. F.S.A., Royal naval College, Greenwich, SE10?. It says: ?Cambridge. 14 June 1927 ? Many thanks for your card. Certainly I ought to be able to make you one visit before July 21. I shall know my time better on returning from Glasgow ? H.H.B.?] | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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