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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
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.
