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A vision of the future - An airport for helicopters in the heart of London: The proposed plan for a "helidrome" at Charing Cross diagrammatically explained (illustrated); and As it will be—London's new airport at Gatwick, which was to be opened by the Queen on June 9: A drawing showing the easy access to road and railway
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George Horace Davis (1881-1963)
A vision of the future - An airport for helicopters in the heart of London: The proposed plan for a "helidrome" at Charing Cross diagrammatically explained (illustrated); and As it will be—London's new airport at Gatwick, which was to be opened by the Queen on June 9: A drawing showing the easy access to road and railway
both signed and dated 'G.H. DAVIS/1952' (lower right)
pencil, pen and black ink and bodycolour, unframed
18.3./4 x 29 ¾ in. (47.6 x 75.5 cm.); and similar; Five drawings, three by the same hand: 'The proposed air routes of the U.K., 1946'; 'Oil refineries of the world'; and A 1942 map of Singapore and its environs; A 1941 map of the aerodromes of Northern Italy' by Charles E. Turner (1883-1965); and A drawing of a Bristol Brabazon by Roland Davies (1904-1993).
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A vision of the future - An airport for helicopters in the heart of London: The proposed plan for a "helidrome" at Charing Cross diagrammatically explained (illustrated); and As it will be—London's new airport at Gatwick, which was to be opened by the Queen on June 9: A drawing showing the easy access to road and railway
both signed and dated 'G.H. DAVIS/1952' (lower right)
pencil, pen and black ink and bodycolour, unframed
18.3./4 x 29 ¾ in. (47.6 x 75.5 cm.); and similar; Five drawings, three by the same hand: 'The proposed air routes of the U.K., 1946'; 'Oil refineries of the world'; and A 1942 map of Singapore and its environs; A 1941 map of the aerodromes of Northern Italy' by Charles E. Turner (1883-1965); and A drawing of a Bristol Brabazon by Roland Davies (1904-1993).
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Literature
the first, The Illustrated London News, Saturday, February 02, 1952, pp. 170-171.
the second, The Illustrated London News, Saturday, June 14, 1958, pp. 1006-1007.
the second, The Illustrated London News, Saturday, June 14, 1958, pp. 1006-1007.
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