Description
Object description
Glass negatives of Vickers aircraft from the First World War and Interwar periods. These include:
Vickers Venace (Falcon & Hispano engined)
Vickers FB 5 'Gunbus'
Vickers ES 1 Bullet
'Vickers Vimy at Weybridge in 1919 'Transatlantic Flight.' Also photographs of the Alcock and Brown after the flight and their arrival at Euston Station in London. Formal portraits of Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown and a photograph of the telegram sent from Newfoundland to announce start of the fl;ight.
Vickers Vimy (G-EAOU) and crew (Australia Flight 1919) including formal portrait of Lieutenant Keith Smith
Vickers Vimy (B 9952) (Canton Unne Salmeson)
Vickers Vimy 'Commercial' (under construction, interiors)
Vickers Vimy 'Commercial' owned by S Instone & Co Ltd Aerial Transport Dept (G-EAS?)
Formal portraits of Flight Lieutenants Hesperus Andrias van Ryneveld and Christopher Joseph Quintin Brand who flew to South Africa in a Vimy in 1920.
Vickers Valentia fitted with loadspeakers
Vickers Vagabond light aircraft
Vickers Vanox bomber - built to Air Ministry specification 19/27 - at Weybridge in May 1932
Vickers Vellore (freight and mail carrying biplane). Also the Australia Flight machine (Serian G-EBYX), March 1929.
Vickers Vellox
Vickers Vireo, 4 June 1928
Vickers Venom - forward fuselage construction
Vickers Vernon - in flight over Baghdad
Vickers Vespa (army co-operation aircraft with Bristol Jupiter engine)
Vickers Viastra II at Weybridge
Vickers Victoria with Bristol Jupiter engines - includes under construction photographs
Vickers Vildebeest floatplane in Spain AND LANDPLANE (Serials N230, N271)
Vickers Vincent (Serials K4105 and K4123)
Vickers Virginia (Jupiter engined) January 1930.
Vickers Virginia X (Serial J7130) (Bristol Pegasus engined)
Vickers Vivid (Serial G-EBPY) with Captain Stack and J R Chaplain, 1931 Australia Flight.
Vickers Vixen IV (G-EBEC) with Rolls-Royce Condor III engine (aircraft reconstructed from Mk 1, II, III)
Vickers Vixen V - build for Chilie
Vickers Wellesley under construction
Vickers Wellington prototype - fuselage and tail construction (at Weybridge 7 October 1937)
Vickers F 3 Flyingboat (N 64 & N 4230)
Vickers FBA Flyingboat (N 2682)
Vickers F2A Flyingboat (inc under construction)
Vickers FB 9 'Streamline Gunbus'
Vickers FB 5
Vickers FB 12 prototype
Vickers FB 16H
Vickers FB 24C and FB 24E Fighter prototypes
Vickers FB 27 prototype under construction in 1917
Vickers Viking amphibian (G-EAOV) under construction and with Sir John Alcock.
Vickers Type 123 Fighter (Serial G-EBNQ), 16 December 1927
Vickers Type 141 Scout
Vickers Type 151 Jockey 'Interceptor' monoplane
Vickers Type 177 Fighter
Vickers Scout 123 (Serial G-EBNQ) at Weybridge, 18 March 1927
Design for multi-engined passenger-carrying flying boat
RAF ambulance version (J 685?)
Prototype 4-engined bomber (possible to same spec as HP Heyford)
RN cruiser towing kite balloon
AR1 type kite balloon
Four-engined bomber under construction in March 1930
Vickers-Boucier radial engine.
Supermarine Type 224 'Spitfire' (Serial K 2890) - built to Air Ministry specification F7/30
Also, an Avro 504K at Gravesend fete.
Sir Hiram Maxim's aeroplane
Physical description
Black and white glass plate negatives. A small number of the negatives are broken.