Aries Gallery

Avro Lancaster I Aries

Avro Lancaster I Aries, PD328, of the Empire Air Navigation School, Shawbury, warming up prior to its England to Cape Town record-breaking flight of 32hrs 21min. This aircraft had Lancastrian nose and tail sections, Lincoln undercarriage and extra fuel tanks in the nose and bomb bay. It also carried the newest navigational aids. After a series of long-range flights between 1944 and 1947 and covering 200, 000 miles the aircraft was retired. Date: 1944

© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library) / Mary Evans Picture Library

Wild goat, Capra aegagrus, and mouflon of Corsica

Wild goat, Capra aegagrus, and mouflon of Corsica, Ovis aries orientalis. . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Carnonkel, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

Exhibition of Aster, an Anglo-French Engineering Firm

Exhibition stand of Aster, a French Engineering Firm. The roots of the Aster Automobile Company can be traced to 1899 when Begbie Manufacturing of Wembley, in north London became British licensees of the French Aster company (Ateliers de Construction Mecanique l'Aster - pictured) making mainly stationary engines. A range of Aster cars was sold in Britain between 1905 and 1907 and are most likely to have been French Aries cars which used Aster engines. Date: 1906

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection