Airship R.100 / designed and constructed by the Airship Guarantee Company, Ltd
- Bib ID:
- 6220886
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Howden, Yorkshire : Airship Guarantee Company, [between July 1928 and November 1929]
- 23 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Notes:
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- A slighly later version of a pamphlet originally produced for a July 5th 1928 official visit to the airfield where the R.100 airship was being built. This version is undated, and one sheet of plates has been added between the text and the cover. The original version was not illustrated, and a 1929 version appears to have had a second sheet of plates added, giving a total of 8 plates. The R.100 was completed and first flew in November 1929.
- The National Library's SR copy has a pencil inscription and an arrow identifying Nevil Shute as the man on the stairs in the view of the dining room. The aeronautical engineer Nevil Shute Norway, who wrote novels as Nevil Shute, worked as Chief Calculator or stress engineer (then Deputy and subsequently Chief Engineer) on the R.100 airship project. Shute, who emigrated to Australia in 1950, discusses the project in a chapter of his Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer (1954). The Library's copy of the booklet is also accompanied by eight sepia toned photographs depicting the airship.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Airship Guarantee Company, issuing body
- Also Titled:
- Airship R100
- Copyright:
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Out of Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1999 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1929
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