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New Monarch Of The Skies 1928
Description
Full titles: "New Monarch of the Skies - Government Airship R-101 nearing completion, will be World's largest... with gas capacity of 5,000,000 cubic feet."
Bedfordshire.
Various shots of the partly finished airship and men working on the structure of it. The airship looks enormous!
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Silent
- Media URN:
- 35046
- Sort Number:
- G 1532
- Time in/Out:
- 01:49:35:00 / 01:50:56:00
- Canister:
- G 1532
- Film ID:
- 740.30
- Issue Date:
- 27/08/1928
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Improving on the clip's current location, the venue here is The Royal Airship Factory at Cardington, Bedfordshire.