Interwar Collection (page 5)

Dewoitine P. 4
Dewoitine P.4 on the ground with tail trestled, Vauville 1923

Fairey Hendon prototype, 1936
Fairey Hendon prototype on a test flight

Three children and the engine driver
Three children talking to the driver of Southern Railway 860 4-6-0 Lord Hawke, Waterloo Station 1934

Track testing equipment on an experimental electric train, 17 November 1931

Lord Hawke
Southern Railway 4-6-0 Lord Nelson Class 860 Lord Hawke at Waterloo Station, 1934

HMS Sturdy 1935
Admiraltys Class Destroyer HMS Sturdy (H28) in a heavy sea, 1935

Hawker Demon aircraft of 604 Sqn
Hawker Demon aircraft of 604 Squadron in flight from RAF Hendon, 1935

HMS Shropshire
London Class cruiser HMS Shropshire

HMS Scorpion
River gunboat HMS Scorpion

HMS Salmon
S Class submarine HMS Salmon

HMS Wren
W Class destroyer HMS Wren

HMS Repulse leaving Malta, 1937, with the Rollicker Class tug HMS Roysterer in the foreground

Bartolomeu Dias, 1937
Sloop Bartolomeu Dias of the Portuguese Navy at the Spithead Naval Review, May 1937

Airmen of Long Range Development Unit, with map, Upper Heyford, 1938
Airmen of the Long Range Development Unit, with map, RAF Upper Heyford, 1938

4-6-0 738 with train
Southern Railway King Arthur Class 4-6-0 locomotive King Pellinore with a London Bridge to Wimbledon service

Sentinel Steam Railcar Neptune
Sentinel Steam Railcar 265 Neptune of the London & North Eastern Railway, built to Diagram 89 in 1928

Pullman passengers
Passengers boarding Southern Railway Pullman carriages at Victoria Station

Waiting to set off
A mother anxiously hangs on to her son while he looks out of the carriage window

Inauguration of the boat train service, Dover 1936
The first boat train service from London to Paris boarding the Southern Railway cross-Channel ferry SS Hampton Ferry at Dover

Lord Anson at Wimbledon
The Mayor and Mayoress of Wimbledon on the footplate of Southern Railway Lord Nelson Class 4-6-0 locomotive Lord Anson with its designer Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell (in bowler hat) close by

Southern Belle crossing Ouse Valley Viaduct
Southern Railway King Arthur Class 4-6-0 locomotive 793 Sir Ontzlake at the head of an express crossing the Ouse Valley Viaduct at Balcombe

Atlantic Coast Express
Maunsell S15 Class 4-6-0 locomotive 827 of the Southern Railway hauling the Atlantic Coast Express

Winstons Churchill 1925
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill when Chancellor of the Exchequer. The location is not recorded

Westminster at night, possibly one of a series taken in January 1932 for " The Sphere "

The thatcher at work on the roof of a Dorset Cottage

Hunting with hounds, possibly the Rockwood harriers of West Yorkshire, 1930s

Springtime in Kent
Sheep grazing in a Kent orchard, oast houses in the background

Holy Trinity Church, Mardale, just before it was demolished and the area flooded by Haweswater Reservoir. The last service was held on 18 August 1935

Romany children making clothes pegs, the caravan and horses in the background

Tulip picking in Lincolnshire

The R-34 during flight trials before its Atlantic crossing
The British R-34 was based closely on the Zeppelin L33 and in 1919 made the first double crossing of the Atlantic Ocean

Jean Battens Percival Gull at night
Jean Batten was inspired by Charles Lindbergh and Amy Johnson. She had a short but spectacular career between 1934 and 1937

Dornier Do 17 of the Luftwaffe, Zurich 1937

Fiat CR. 32 bis
Fiat CR.32 bis (2975 153-III) of the Italian Air Force, Zurich 1937

Avia Ba-122 14 (OK-AMF) of Czech Air Force, Zurich 1937

Blackburn Shark seaplane of the Portuguese Naval Aviation on water, Brough 1936

The hangars at Hendon
the crowds make their way towards the hangars at Hendon during one of its famous pageants. These hangars now form part of the Royal Air Force Museum

Olympic and Majestic at Southampton
White Star liners Majestic and Olympic in the Ocean Dock, Southamton 1922

Schleicher Rhonbussard glider in flight, Dunstable, 1938

RAF convoy, Palestine 1939
An Alvis Straussler armoured car leads a convoy in Palestine, 1939

RAF dinghy
16 Inboard Dinghy of the Royal Air Force at Gosport, 1938

Woman with model aeroplane
A woman prepares to launch a model aeroplane, France circa 1923

A Balloon race
The start of a Balloon race, circa 1923

Vickers Virginia X of 58 Squadron RAF, Worthy Down, 1934

Bristol F. 2b Fighter
Bristol Fighter of Oxford University Air Squadron RAF over the Kent coast, 1930

Motor minesweeper MMS1

Lubricating the motion of Lord Nelson
Southern Railway Lord Nelson Class 4-6-0 locomotive 850 Lord Nelson being prepared for its first service from Waterloo

Breakfast on a Southern Railway service in the 1930s

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