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Photograph album, 1958 - 1970

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/STJN 8/1/1

Scope and Contents

Titled "Hovercraft".
Including photographs of the SR N1, 1958 (1); the SR N2, 1960 (3); Richard Stanton-Jones with Jawaharlal Nehru and the Earl and Countess Mountbatten, 1962 (2); a press cutting about the SR N3, 1963 (1); Richard Stanton-Jones with Queen Elizabeth II, 1965 (4); press cuttings about the SR N4 cross-Channel service between Ramsgate and Calais, 1965 (4); the SR N6, 1965 (1); a press cutting about the hovercraft service in Oakland and San Francisco, California, United States, 1965 (1); a letter of congratulation on receiving the silver medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1966 (1); a press cutting about the Hovershow, 1966 (1); a press cutting about Dorine Stanton-Jones, 1966 (1); a postage stamp featuring the SR N6, 1966 (1); Richard Stanton-Jones with Earl Mountbatten, 1967 (1); press cuttings about the launch of the SR N4, 1967 (2), and about the SR N4 cross-Channel service operated by Seaspeed between Dover and Boulogne, 1968 (3); the SR N4 on the cross-Channel service operated by Seaspeed between Dover and Boulogne, 1968 (4); Richard Stanton-Jones at the controls of the SR N6, 1969 (3); a press cutting about a 5000 mile journey made by a SR N6 through West Africa to set a world distance record for hovercraft, 1970 (1); Richard Stanton-Jones with the Duke of Edinburgh, undated [1969] or [1970] (1); and press cuttings about the history of hovercraft development, 1970 (3).
With publicity material about the SR N4, undated; two booklets about the Elmer A. Sperry Award given to Richard Stanton-Jones by the American Society for Mechanical Engineers at a banquet in New York, 4 December 1968; and a souvenir edition of the "Daily Express" about the launch of the SR N4 cross-Channel service operated by Seaspeed between Dover and Boulogne, August 1968.

Dates

  • Creation: 1958 - 1970

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. A small number of files are closed pending review and these closures are marked in the catalogue.

Extent

1 volume(s)

Language of Materials

English