1947 Collection (page 6)

Fremont Golf Club, Fremont, Nebraska, USA. Date: 1947

Silhouetted building
Book cover design: Report of the Union Delegation to the U.S.S.R. : November & December, 1946, Amalgamated Engineering Union, 1947 Date: 1947

New Map Room at Scotland Yard
Marking a map with coloured flags in the new Map Room at Scotland Yard, 1947. Each flag represents a crime(yellow for housebreaking, red for burglary, green for murder)

NFS (London Region) Boy trapped in a milk churn
Boy trapped in a milk churn is set free at Brigade HQ on 4 July 1947. The milkman had brought him to the fire station in his milk float. Date: 1947

Blackout. Fuel-crisis shopping in London, 1947
The Candlelights of London: business as usual in the capital. Fuel-crisis shopping with department store lighting - modern style

Portrait of artist Jean Berne-Bellecour in French uniform
Portrait of the artist, Jean Berne-Bellecour in French army uniform, by Lucien Jonas. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915

French and German soldiers in hand to hand fighting. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

A Corporal of the Scots Guards in Battle Order on a stepped white marble base of 2 - 5 cm high. Sold to James B - 12.11.10. Payment next year. 3950.00. Lady Kathleen Scott (1878-1947)

Lieutenant General Robert L Bullard - AEF
Lieutenant General Robert L. Bullard, American Expeditionary Force, dated 9th July 1918. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915

Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett, dated 11th October 1918. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

General Tasker H Bliss, American Expeditionary Force
General Tasker H. Bliss, American Expeditionary Force, dated 18th April 1918. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915

General The Honourable Julian Byng, dated 18th May 1917. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Currie, dated 1917. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

Lieutenant General Sir William Pulteney, dated 23rd May 1917. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In

General Sir Edmund Allenby, dated 20th May 1917. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

Field Marshal French, dated June 8th 1915. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

General Robert Nivelle, dated 1917. Jean Coraboeuf, (1870-1947)

General Guillaumat, dated Sepember 1917. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

General Anthoine, dated 9th May 1917. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

General Berthelot, dated October 1915. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

General Umbert. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

General Roques, dated May 1915. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

General de Maud huy, dated 1915. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

General Maunoury, dated 22nd / 23rd June 1915
General Maunoury, dated 22nd/23rd June 1915. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

General D Urbal, dated 11th November 1915. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

General Debeney, dated 16th March 1917. Lucien Hector Jonas (1880-1947). In February Of 1915, Jonas Was Offically Accredited As Military Painter To The MusÚÑáDe L ArmÚѺ In Paris

Victims of communal rioting during the Partition of India
Two victims of communal rioting during the period of the partition of India. Here, a bandaged member of a caravan of sikh refugees rests by the roadside during a halt from the often lengthy

A temporary sanctuary for Delhis hard pressed Muslims
A scene at the Jami Masjid Mosque where several hundreds of refugees, after fleeing from their burning homes, were accommodated until refugee camps were ready to receive them

First-aid post near the Jami Masjid Mosque in Old Delhi
Wounds being dressed at the post before the people were sent on to refugee camps which have had to be established on the outskirts of the city since the outbreak of communcal massacres

Percival Proctor 5 G-AHWR (msn AE73), of Universal Flying Services Limited, at Fairoaks, on 29 November 1947. Date: 1947

Republic RC-1 Seabee N6249K (msn 456) 28 February 1947: N6249K - registered and delivered to Northern Air Service Inc.; Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Date: circa 1960

Piper L-4H Grasshopper F-BFQV (msn 12052), company designation J3C-65D. Built as L-4H 44-79756 17 January 1947: OO-GAZ, cancelled 17 September 1948 18 September 1948: re-registered OO-GAS

Douglas C-47A-5-DK Skytrain
(ex Armee de l Air) - Douglas C-47A-5-DK Skytrain 92449 (msn 12251, call-sign FA ) at Le Bourget Airport on display with the Musee de l air et de l espace in July 1982

Dassault Super Mystere B. 2 10-RY
Armee de l Air - Dassault Super Mystere B.2 10-RY, of Escadron de Chasse 1/10 Valois, from Base aerienne 705 Tours. Date: 1961

North American P-51D Mustang N6303T
North American - Cavalier P-51D-20-NA Mustang N6303T (msn 122-31207, formerly 44-63481) 1947: Jun 7, BOC RCAF 9553 Date: circa 1963

North American P-51C-5-NT Mustang NX4184N Baily Betty (msn 103-26279, formerly 42-103725) with race number 34. 42-103725 was struck off charge and sent to Searcy Field, Stillwater

British Aircraft Company - B. A. - Cataract Swallow 2 G-AELG
British Aircraft Company (B.A.) Cataract Swallow 2 G-AELG (msn 449), at Lympne for the 1946 or 1947 (it competed in both) Folkestone Aero Trophy air races

Curtiss C-46D Commando N74690 (msn 33463, ex 44-78067) of Aero Maintenance Inc, Miami Springs, FL. Delivered to U.S. Army Air Force as 44-78067 on 21 March 1945 and struck off charge on 2 May 1947

United States Air Force - Bell P-59B Airacomet 44-22650
United States Air Force - Bell P-59B-1-BE Airacomet 44-22650 (msn 27-58) at Wright-Patterson AFB. 30 October 1944 :taken on strength by USaF, (delivered prior to contract cancellation)

United States Air Force - Consolidated XC-99 43-52436. First flight 23 November 1947. Flew from San Antonio, Texas to Frankfurt

Grumman XF9F-2 Panther 122475 (Model G-79, 1st prototype), at the Naval Air Testing Centre on Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, with Grumman test pilot Corky Meyer (Corwin H)

Miles M. 14A Hawk Trainer Mk. III G-AJJI
Miles M.14A Hawk Trainer Mk.III G-AJJI (msn 1985, ex T9698). Registered after wartime use as G-AJJI, on 21 October 1947 and crashed at Elstree on 19 August 1956. Date: circa 1955

Heston JC. 6 VL529
Heston JC.6 VL529 1st prototype at the 1947 SBAC Radlett airshow. The Heston JC.6 was designed and built to meet Air Ministry Specification A.2-45 for an Air Observation Post (AOP)

Miles M. 71 Merchantman U-21
The sole Miles M.71 Merchantman U-21 (msn 6695), at Woodley aerodrome, with stored unwanted Miles M.33 Monitor target-tugs in the background

Kay Gyroplane Type 33-1 G-ACVA
Kay Gyroplane Type 33/1 G-ACVA (msn 1002) at the Fifty Years of Flying Exhibition, held at RAF Hendon. G-ACVA was first flown on 18 February 1935 and last flown at Perth on 16 August 1947

Vickers VC. 1 Viking 1B G-AJFT
Vickers VC.1 Viking 1B G-AJFT (msn 238) of Airwork London, at Blackbushe Airport. (Vickers Type 627 Viking 1B) Airwork carried out trooping flights, with Vickers Vikings

Post WW2 - British and American soldiers on parade
circa 1910s

KON-TIKI MUSEUM
The famous raft the Kon-Tiki, at the museum in Oslo. Thor Heyerdahl sailed across the Pacific (1947), proving that Polynesian settlers could have sailed from Polynesia to Peru. Date: 1960s

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