Collection Relating to Exhibitions Celebrating Alcock & Brown
- Made:
- 1919-06-01-1989-12-31
- maker:
- Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd, Manchester Airport plc, Holloway, Elsie, Science and Industry Museum, Rolls-Royce Ltd, Aer Lingus, Daily Mirror, Norman Edwards Associates (Manchester), Royal Aero Club, The Daily Telegraph, Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Guardian Media Group, The Daily Mail, Manchester Evening Chronicle, Manchester Evening News Ltd, British Aircraft Corporation, Royal Mail and Science Museum, London
Collection of papers and photographs relating to exhibitions celebrating the first transatlantic flight by Captain Jack Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten-Brown.
Consisting of copy photographic prints from the Vickers archive; copy photographic prints from Associated Newspapers; copy photographic prints from Aer Lingus showing an exhibition in an unknown location; photographic prints from commercial photographic studios; planning materials relating to an exhibition at Manchester Airport in 1969; commemorative publications for the 50th anniversary of the first transatlantic flight; commemorative publications relating to the memorials at Clifden and at Manchester Airport; catalogue for the Manchester Airport exhibition; two wooden plaques to mark the 50th anniversary of the first transatlantic flight; newspaper cuttings and copies of cuttings and articles relating to the flight and its anniversary.
Details
- Extent:
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1 box
- Identifier:
- YMS0067
- Access:
- Open access.
- copyright:
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Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions. Copying of some items restricted where these are secondary copies.