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(67) N.501 - Nose of a Handley-Page manned by three men
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > Tom Aitken > (67) N.501 - Nose of a Handley-Page manned by three men |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549114 |
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| Description | Handley-Page bomber crew, Western Front, during World War I. The three-man air crew of this Handley-Page bomber. They are in the rather blunt-shaped nose of the aeroplane. This bomber had a maximum range of 650 miles (1,040 kilometres) and a maximum speed of 99 miles per hour (160 kilometres per hour). This is one of a series of photographs of the bomber attributed to Tom Aitken. Unlike some of the other images, this does not appear to have been censored, probably because it shows little detail of the aeroplane itself. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. The nose of a Handley-Page manned by three men.'] |
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| Description | Tom Aitken was a newspaper photographer from Glasgow who was assigned in December 1917 as a war photographer along with David McLellan and Armando Consolé. McLellan's work also features in the National Library of Scotland’s Haig Papers. War photographers held a hybrid position during World War I, being part of yet not ultimately responsible to the military. |
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| Description | Photographs by named photographers. |
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| Description | Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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