Search Results for: Newspaper cuttings
Lot Number: 535
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £16.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh's tour of USA- Europe- Africa- South America- USA from August to December 1933, a collection of 30 original cuttings of reports from the Times newspaper covering their departure from New York on June 26th, stops at Copenhagen, Labrador and New York (July), Greenland, West Greenland, Copenhagen, Iceland, Reykjavik, the Shetland Islands, Copenhagen and Stockholm (August), Stockholm, Sweden, Moscow, Oslo, Croydon Aerodrome London, Galway, Inverness and Paris (October), Lisbon, Valencia, Azores and Funchal (November), Bathurst Gambia, Cape Verde, Natal, Trinidad , Puerto Rico, Miami and New York (December). approximately 1500 words. A wealth of original material. |
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Lot Number: 536
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £5.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Five RAF machines fly over a 25,550 ft Mount Rakaposhi in an hitherto inaccessible area of the Himalayas, an original cutting from The Times newspaper correspondent in Delhi, 20 December 1932. Having flown up the Indus Valley to Kashmir the machines then gave two demonstration flights over the Hunza valley, c110 words. |
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Lot Number: 537
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £5.00 Category: Ephemera Description: H L Brooks record flight Cape Town to England in 4 days, two original cuttings from The Times newspaper, 2 May 37 from Broken Hill en route to Kisumu, and 5 May 37 on return to Heston England, having completed the journey 6980 miles in a record time of 4 days and 20 minutes, c300 words |
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Lot Number: 538
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £8.00 Category: Ephemera Description: HF Broadbent's attempted record flight to Australia. Two cuttings from the Times, one on his departure from London dated 23/10/37 (17 column cms), the other on his turn around from Baghdad dated and 25/10 (11 column cms).. |
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Lot Number: 539
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £5.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Paris to Dakar in 20 hours, introduction of new fast air service between Paris and West Africa, original 100 word newspaper cutting dated 11 March, 1938. |
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Lot Number: 540
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £16.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Samuel Cody's successful trial ascent at Farnborough, original newspaper cutting from the Weekly Dispatch dated January 3 1909. |
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Lot Number: 541
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £5.00 Category: Ephemera Description: The Egyptian Air Club Round the Oases Air Race February 1937, 41 participants including 9 from Britain, four original cuttings from The Times newspaper including list of participants, c600 words. |
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Lot Number: 542
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £8.00 Category: Ephemera Description: The Kings Cup air race 1935, a runaway win for the Miles Falcon (Gypsy 6) flown by Flight Lieutenant T. Rose, four original cuttings from the The Times newspaper including list of entries, the final field, a map of the course, and the actual and estimated speeds of the first and last 6 participants, 2000 words. |
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Lot Number: 543
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £5.00 Category: Ephemera Description: To Greenland by Air, Cruise of RAF Flying Boats, original cuttings of two reports from The Times newspaper on 13 & 17 September 1934 of the first flight by a Royal Air Force formation from England to Greenland. The final destination was Iceland but the planes had to turn back on reaching the Faroes due to icy conditions in arctic Waters, c 200 words. |
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