Search Results for: Newspaper cuttings
Lot Number: 504
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £6.00 Category: Ephemera Description: French mass flight across the Sahara, 28 French machines under the command of General Vuillemin made a flight round French Africa returning to Paris on 26th December 1933. Six original cuttings from The Times newspaper including a picture of some of the planes, their pilots and mechanics on the ground awaiting take off, c500 words. |
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Lot Number: 505
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £8.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Lord Sempill's attempt to fly from England to Australia in 3 1/2 days, three newspaper cuttings one from Athens and the other from Karachi, also a picture of the aeroplane in which he set out from the Hanworth Aerodrome, England on 30 July 1936. Lord Sempill was a British peer and record breaking air pioneer who was later shown to have been a traitor who passed secret information to the Imperial Japanese Military before the Second World War .c120 words |
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Lot Number: 506
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £15.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Miss Jean Batten's flight to Australia, three cuttings from correspondents of the Times dated 6/10/36 (Nicosia), 7/10 (Karachi) and 11/10 (Darwin), total column length 18cm. |
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Lot Number: 507
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £8.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Mrs Amelia Earhart, a collection of original newspaper cuttings including her record flight across the United States in August 1932, Mexico City to New York non-stop May 1935, Nepal to Senegal June 1937, and reports covering her attempted flight round the world from East to West from Paris, Khartoum, Karachi, Calcutta, Darwin, Melbourne and New York , attempts to trace her disappearance in the Pacific 6 July 1937, and her Times obituary 20 Jul 1937. |
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