Royal Aero Club

Co-ordinating body for air sports in the UK, founded in 1901 as the Aero Club of Great Britain. It was granted its Royal prefix in 1910. The Club published a magazine, Flight International, from 1962 onwards.

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Six archive boxes and four loose items, including: newspaper cuttings and articles by A. V. Roe and H. V. Roe describing the early days of A. V. Roe & Co. Ltd; papers relating to the early flying careers of H. V. Roe and A. V. Roe, including early flights of Avro aircraft; promotional and trade literature for A. V. Roe & Co. Ltd, including copies of The Joy-Stick; photographs of Avro aircraft, including aeroplanes at Brownfield Mill and at Brooklands; photographs of A. V. Roe, H. V. Roe and other members of the Roe family; genealogical research papers; papers relating to Mrs. Roe's Orphanage, established by Annie Sofia Roe, the mother of A. V. and H. V. Roe; papers relating to H. V. Roe's military aviation career; personal papers of H. V. Roe relating to Leatherhead, Surrey.

Collection of papers regarding Humphrey Verdon Roe
Comprise /1 programme 'Banquet to the pilots taking part in the England-Australia air races', (12 Oct at Grosvenor House), including menu, list of pilots and planes of previous record flights between England and Australia, flight map, and details of the race; /2 'England-Australia race covers'/Maj. Alan Goodfellow, Royal Aero Club clerk of the course for the MacPherson Robertson Trophy races on 20 Oct, an 8-page booklet detailing the air mail aspects of the races (Apr 1935); /3 commemorative card re 'the record-breaking flight of C.W.A. Scott and T. Campbell Black ... Oct 20-Oct 23, 1934 in their D.H. Comet ...', bearing photo of theplane in flight over mountainous terrain, and head and shoulder portrait photos of Scott and Black.

Publicity material relating to the Mac-Robertson international air races
Organised by the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom. Includes details of all the meeting's officials; a map of the Derby course; a list of owners, pilots, machines, etc.

Official programme for the first air race Oxford v. Cambridge and the sixth aerial Derby at the London Aerodrome, Hendon on 16th July, 1921
Two official souvenir programmes for the Schneider Trophy contests held in 1929 and 1931 at Southampton.

Publicity material relating to The Schneider Trophy Contest
Contains an entry for Alliott Verdon-Roe.

Royal Aero Club Year Book
Illustrated.

Programme of the Royal Air Force Aerial Pageant. Held at the London Aerodrome, Hendon on 30 June 1923
Includes correspondence sent to A. V Roe & Co and Gerrard & Co. and photographic prints of the Verdon-Roe family.

Photographs and army field notebook
Awarded for the performance of a 60 H.P.vertical, 4 cylinder, water cooled engine which in 1911 won the Alexander prize of 1,000.

Diploma awarded to The Green Engine Company Limited
The dinner was held on 15 December.

Printed menu from Annual Dinner at the Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Metropole
The banquet was held at the Savoy Hotel on 23 June. Alcock and Brown had recently won the Daily Mail's £10,000 prize.

Printed menu relating to the Banquet to Celebrate the First Non-stop Trans-Atlantic Flight by Capt. Sir J. Alcock and Lieut. Sir A.W. Brown
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.

Collection Relating to Exhibitions Celebrating Alcock & Brown

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