Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Ernest Willows, newspaper cutting

Various newspaper extracts stuck onto board:- 3 newsprint photographs, E.T.Willows airship with its nose out of the 'shed', E.T.Willows portrait, the machinery used for filling the balloon with gas (not dated) "£500 Leap" newsprint photograph of Miss elsa spencer, a woman parachutist who jumped from a height of 2000ft from a balloon in order to win a bet (not dated) "Sixth Edition : Today's Echoes". Various snippets of information; third from the bottom - an item referring to "The New willows Airship 'No.5' flight from Hendon to London, 23 February 1914. Watkin's Mono, F.Murphy Seaplane. Small article referring to the Cardiff aero-pioneers, in particular Mr Watkins working on his new models (not dated) Pencil annotations at bottom of mount relating to H. Watkins and the Seaplane exhibited by F. Murphy.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

88.164I/24

Acquisition

Collected officially, 6/12/1988

Measurements

mount (mm): 235
mount (mm): 243

Material

paper
card

Location

In store

Categories

air transport 1910s
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