Papers relating to pioneer flights involving wireless telegraphy, 1919-36
File
MS. Marconi 332
Held at the Weston Library
Includes:
- Wireless Press memoranda about handling news on transatlantic flights (also news on events in Russia), 1919
- Press release about the flight of the airship R.38 across the Atlantic, 1921
- Press releases about the use of wireless direction finding on the airship Norge 1 on its attempted flight across the North Pole, 1926
- Papers about a flight by Major Franco from Spain to South America, and subsequent flights including an attempted world flight during which he was killed, 1926-9
- Correspondence and papers about Captain F.T. Courtney's attempted flight across the Atlantic and rescue using wireless, 1927-32
- Press releases and cuttings about flights by Major Kingsford-Smith, 1928-31
- Correspondence and press cuttings about the attempted transatlantic flight of Majors Idzikowski and Kubala of Poland, ending in a crash in the Azores in which Idzikowski died, 1929
- Correspondence and press cuttings about Lieutenant-Commander Glen Kidston's flight to South Africa accompanied by a Marconi radio operator, T.A. Vallette, and Kidson's subsequent fatal crash, 1929-31
- Press releases about flights by the airship R.100 using direction finding, 1930
- Press cuttings and releases about flights by Mrs. Victor Bruce, 1930-2
- Correspondence and papers about Sir Alan Cobham's survey flight to Africa, 1931
- Booklet and press cuttings about Captain C.D. Barnard's Aerial Circus, 1931
- Telegram and letter from Amy Mollison, née Johnson, in appreciation of the value of her Marconi set during a flight to the Cape and back, 1936
Dates
- Creation: 1919-36
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Marconi 332
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk