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RARE AIRSHIP ZEPPELIN R100 PLATE RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLING IN 1931
RARE AIRSHIP ZEPPELIN R100 PLATE RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLING IN 1931
RARE AIRSHIP ZEPPELIN R100 PLATE RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLING IN 1931
RARE AIRSHIP ZEPPELIN R100 PLATE RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLING IN 1931
RARE AIRSHIP ZEPPELIN R100 PLATE RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLING IN 1931
RARE AIRSHIP ZEPPELIN R100 PLATE RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLING IN 1931
RARE AIRSHIP ZEPPELIN R100 PLATE RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLING IN 1931
RARE AIRSHIP ZEPPELIN R100 PLATE RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLING IN 1931
RARE AIRSHIP ZEPPELIN R100 PLATE RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLING IN 1931
RARE AIRSHIP ZEPPELIN R100 PLATE RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLING IN 1931
RARE AIRSHIP ZEPPELIN R100 PLATE RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLING IN 1931

RARE AIRSHIP ZEPPELIN R100 PLATE RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLING IN 1931 "LAST ONE"

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    "LAST ONE"
    RARE AIRSHIP ZEPPELIN R100 BANDALASTA PLATE RECOVERED FROM DISMANTLING IN 1931 WITH PROVENANCE
    His Majesty's Airship R100
    , known simply as
    R100
    , was a privately designed and built rigid British
    airship
    made as part of a two-ship competition to develop a commercial airship service for use on
    British Empire
    routes as part of the
    Imperial Airship Scheme
    . The other airship, the
    R101
    , was built by the
    British Air Ministry
    , but both airships were funded by the Government.
    R100 was built by the Airship Guarantee Company, a specially-created subsidiary of the armaments firm,
    Vickers-Armstrongs
    , led by Commander
    Dennis Burney
    , with the design team headed by
    Barnes Wallis
    , later famous for his invention of the
    bouncing bomb
    . The design team also included
    Nevil Shute Norway
    as the senior
    stress engineer
    .
    R100 first flew in December 1929. It made a series of trial flights and a successful return
    crossing of the Atlantic
    in July–August 1930, but following the crash of R101 in October 1930 the Imperial Airship Scheme was terminated and it was broken up for scrap.
    This is one of a few plates of two designs recovered by Frank Tilly in 1931 as written in his letter (pictured) and was part of the reknown David Kirsch collection. Bandalasta plates were the first resin plates and produced in the 1920s and 1930s in England. The auction is for one plate and a copy of the original letter.