Civil aviation
Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:
Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Q - Roo., 09 Dec 1940 - 18 Mar 1958
Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Su - Th., 17 Jan 1951 - 29 Oct 1960
Public and Political: General: Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm., 11 Feb 1936 - 21 Dec 1936
RAF Far East Flight, 1928
Prints of the flight of four flying-boats from Britain to Australia, including pictures of the officers, personnel and aircraft, and extracts from the log.
Speeches, 1957-11 - 1965-09
Speeches, 1971-01 - 1971-12
Speeches and articles, 1983-01 - 1984-12
Subjects include: the Falkland Islands and the Franks Report; defence; the Horn of Africa and Aden Committee; the Trade Union Bill; South Africa; the future of Hong Kong; the report of the Civil Aviation Authority on increasing competition among British airlines.
Speeches, articles and memoranda, 1942-01 - 1943-07
Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 03 Mar 1919 - 15 Dec 1919
Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes and typescript., 11 Mar 1920 - 15 Dec 1920
Speeches: Speech notes., Jan 1949 - 01 Apr 1949
Unfiled loose correspondence, 1917-01 - 1917-12
(Untitled), 23 Aug 1922
(Untitled), 11 Sep 1922
Letter from Wing-Commander C Erskine-Risk (Royal Aero Club, 3 Clifford Street, [London]) to WSC giving an account of the eventful flight of himself and Spenser Grey in the Circuit of Britain (King's Cup) air race, and praising Grey's performance as a pilot.
(Untitled), 11 Sep [1922]
Letter from Spenser Grey (Royal Aero Club, 3 Clifford Street, [London]) to WSC on: his failure in the Circuit of Britain (King's Cup) air race, resulting from bad luck such as the breaking of his compass; the efforts of engineers from the Blackburn company and from Rolls Royce to get his aircraft ready; the effect of WSC entering an aircraft in encouraging "the vulgar rich" in Leeds [Yorkshire] and midland cities to support aviation by entering aircraft for races themselves.
(Untitled), 11 Sep 1922
Letter from [Edward Marsh] to the managing directors of the Blackburn Company and Rolls Royce Ltd conveying WSC's appreciation of the efforts of the companies' employees to prepare Spenser Grey's aircraft for the Circuit of Britain (King's Cup) air race. Carbon copy.
(Untitled), [Sep] [1922]
Photographs of the aircraft entered by WSC for the King's Cup air race taken shortly after its arrival in Manchester. Sent with CHAR 2/124B/152.
(Untitled), 01 Aug 1922
Letter from Spenser Grey (Royal Aero Club, 3 Clifford Street, [London]) to WSC asking him to enter him (Grey) for the August handicap air race.
(Untitled), 03 Aug 1922
Letter from Spenser Grey (Royal Aero Club) to Edward Marsh on the insurance of the aircraft he intends to fly [in the August Handicap air race].
(Untitled), 03 Aug 1922
Letter from (Air Ministry) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/124A/11 and stressing the importance of Spenser Grey having insured himself for the air race for which he wishes WSC to enter him.
(Untitled), 03 Aug 1922
Letter from [WSC] to Spenser Grey stating that he has entered Grey for the August Handicap air race and hoping that he has made adequate insurance arrangements. Suggested draft sent with CHAR 2/124A/10.
(Untitled), 08 Nov 1924
Letter from Flight-Lieutenant Maxwell Coote (Government House, Sydney, Australia) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer, reporting that he (Coote) has been appointed ADC to Sir Dudley de Chair, the governor of New South Wales, and that he is the first Royal Air Force officer to secure such a post in Australasia, and that Sir Keith Smith and Vickers Ltd are planning an airship route from Australia to England in two years time.
(Untitled), 26 Jul 1934
(Untitled), 14 Aug 1934
Letter from WSC to Lord Rothermere, on the size of the German air force. Stating that his figure of 500 aircraft related purely to military aircraft and did not take into account conversion from civil aviation. Hoping that Rothermere would publish his information in the Daily Mail. "Even at my figures, which I gather the Government do not dispute, the prospect is most alarming, and their measures hopelessly inefficient" [carbon].
(Untitled), 20 Nov 1934
Letter from Desmond Morton to WSC, on the radius of action of Germany's new bomber, and on Archambaud's Statement on the French Chamber of Deputies on the number of pilots in Germany.