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Mounted Service Pattern

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 77/Z/619

Two circular, steel bowls, both nickel plated on their inside surfaces. The lower one, deeper, the rim chamfered and with a folding handle rivetted to the inside edge. The outer sides bearing loops rivetted on opposite sides through which pass the leather securing strap which holds the pair together. The upper bowl, shallow, with a similar pair of strap loops and two slots cut into one side to enable the handle to be folded out and this bowl put on as a lid. The securing strap of pale brown thick hide with a steel buckle sewn at one end and two fixed and one running leather loops. The loop immediately below the buckle and the running loop to take the spare end of the strap when the whole is attached to the wearer; the reversed loop to form the loop enclosing the two tins.

Mounted Service Pattern

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 83/Z/1177

Two circular, steel bowls, both nickel plated on their inside surfaces. The lower one, deeper, the rim chamfered and with a folding handle rivetted to the inside edge. The outer sides bearing loops rivetted on opposite sides through which pass the leather securing strap which holds the pair together. The upper bowl, shallow, with a similar pair of strap loops and two slots cut into one side to enable the handle to be folded out and this bowl put on as a lid. The securing strap of pale brown thick hide with a steel buckle sewn at one end and two fixed and one running leather loops. The loop immediately below the buckle and the running loop to take the spare end of the strap when the whole is attached to the wearer; the reversed loop to form the loop enclosing the two tins.

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Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 82/U/466

TBC Blue, long-sleeved, cotton dress with detachable collar (collar missing). Open down front from neck to waist, closing with press stud and button at neck and then 4 removable buttons down its length (button missing). Opening then follows the waist line for 2½ inches with 2 more buttons and then runs vertically down for another 11 inches closing with one centrally place button. Detached 2 inch light blue belt with 4 pairs of small button holes, a centrally placed button and button hole at one end and 3 pairs of small button holes at the other. Two gathered pleats in back panel and a pleated section on the back of the skirt. One open patch pocket on left breast, two pen pockets on right and one open patch pocket on left hand side of skirt 5 inches below belt line. 10 inch opening at end of sleeve closing with 4 detachable buttons.

Half Cup, Grahame-White, 1913

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1988/1371/C

Wide, squat silver cup cut in half, vertically and mounted on a wooden back board. The cup is engraved ‘The London Aerodrome Hendon, October 18th 1913. Dead Heat Cup Divided Between C Grahame-White And W. L. Brock’ while the base reads ‘Won by C. Grahame-White’. Hence the splitting of the cup between two winners.

Aero Club of UK

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 71/C/182

Circular, bronze. Obverse - within a raised edge a scene of a balloon, an aeroplane and an airship flying over London with clouds and a rising sun in the background. Reverse - within a buckled strap lettered AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM the engraved inscription INTERNATIONAL BALLOON CONTEST J.T.C. MOORE-BRABAZON F.A.I. May 30 1908. Cased.

Letter from Mr Hugh James Tom Powell to Alex Henshaw, 28 May 1939

Archives, In Storage, X002-9256/007/004/124

Letter congratulating Alex Henshaw on coming second in the 1939 London to Isle of Man Air Race and wishing him luck for the Manx Air Derby. Includes illustrations of Alex Henshaw's Percival Vega Gull G-AFEA and Hawker Hurricane.

Recording of a speech made by MRAF Sir Arthur Harris at a Bomber Command reunion held in London, 13 May 1978

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6731/001

Recording of a speech by MRAF Sir Arthur Harris to Bomber Command veterans, in which he discusses the bombing campaign and its significance in the outcome of the Second World War.

Recording of a speech made by MRAF Sir Arthur Harris at a Bomber Command reunion held in London, 13 May 1978

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6731/002

Recording of a speech by MRAF Sir Arthur Harris to Bomber Command veterans, in which he discusses the bombing campaign and its significance in the outcome of the Second World War.

De Havilland Aircraft Company, can 383, 21 Squadron Mosquitoes, Cape Record Mosquito, Argentine Dove, 613 Squadron Mosquitoes, 1944-1947

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC96/334

Film consisting of various clips relating to the de Havilland Aircraft Company and operations carried out by de Havilland Mosquitoes, including preparations for the 1947 record-breaking flight from London to Cape Town

HRH Duke of Gloucester, Air Chief Marshal Sir William Dickson, Wg Cdr Eric Plumtree and others, inspecting English Electric Canberra aircraft before London to New Zealand Air Race, Heathrow, 8 October 1953

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6539/8