Miscellaneous papers and letters, 1921-1922

 
Component identifier:
File Doc. 743
Content Summary:

Re proposed round the world flight of Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith, and accident at Brooklands in which Sir Ross lost his life.

Includes:

Letter from Cecil King, Chelsea Art Club, to Vickers Ltd 17 July 1921, re the appearance of the biplane and its course across Sydney Heads, the information to be incorporated in design for memorial window. With reply, 18 July 1921.

Letter from Manager Air Dept., Vickers Ltd., 2 Sept. 1921, to WH Shiers, Bondi, NSW, enclosing photograph of Vimy machine.

Papers re accident, 13 April 1922, in which Sir Ross Smith and Lieut. Bennett were killed. Include letter, 21 May 1922, to Wm. Adams Co., Adelaide, re firm's wreaths for funerals of Smith and Bennett. With reply, 16 June 1922.

Newspaper cutting, The Argus, 17 June 1922, re state funeral of Lieut. Bennett in Melbourne.

(c. 125pp.)

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Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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