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Click here to subscribeA Doulton Lambeth three piece spirit barrel set - a seated jolly man on a tub with cork top, metal tap, a four legged metal base and a stoneware spirit bucket with swing handle together with a pair of matching `Jolly Drinker` containers with flat cap lids, 4 ins high, main barrel 10 ins high
W. G. CARTER C. B. E., F. R. Ae. S., Former chief aircraft designer to the Gloster Aircraft Company, Hucclecote, GloucestershireA unique and historical collection of correspondence, post office telegrams and press cuttings relating to the successful first flight of the Gloster-Whittle E. 28/39 on 15th May, 1941, at the hands of Glosters` chief test pilot P. E. `Gerry` Sayer. Other correspondence, including Post Office telegrams relating to the successful attempt on the world`s Air Speed Record on 7th November 1945, Group Captain H. J. Wilson Flying Meteor F.4. "Britannia" EE454, achieving 606mph over Herne Bay, Kent. Correspondents include Tom Sopwith, Frank Whittle, Roy Chadwick, W.E.W. Petter, Stafford Cripps and others. Other correspondence concerns the award to Carter of the C.B.E. in the 1947 New Year`s Honours List, together with his decoration in original case, with miniature; his Royal Aeronautical Society silver medal engraved `Awarded to W. G. Carter F. R. Ae. S. for his work on jet propelled aircraft 1947` and other ephemera including various drawing instruments, a Regent-Plate Rolls-Royce `Spirit of Ecstasy` ash tray, pocket watch, spectacles in case, family photograph album, various diaries. Note: Wilfred George Carter C.B.E., F.R.Ac.S. (1889-1969) was chief designer at the Gloucester (later Gloster) Aircraft Company and ranks amonst the greatest of aircraft designers. He helped design biplane fighters for the RAF (The Gauntlet and Gladiator most notably), before becoming involved with the Jet aircraft alongside Sir Frank Whittle. Carter was asked by the Ministry for Aircraft to design a brand new aircraft for Whittle`s engine and the result was the Gloster E.28/39 `Pioneer`. The plane was built in secret at the Regents Garage in Cheltenham and had its first flight at Hucclecote, Gloucestershire on 8th April 1941. It subsequently became the first Allied jet aircraft. Following on from the Pioneer, the Ministry for Aircraft encouraged Carter to design a more practical fighter for warfare. Consequently Carter made the decision to design the next plane with two engines and the result was the F.9/40, which flew for the first time on March 5th 1943, giving much more satisfactory and reliable performances. This plane found worldwide fame as the Gloster Meteor. In the hands of the RAF the Meteors were the first jet aircraft in operational service and were used primarily against the V1 flying bombs. The first `kill` came when Flg. Off. Dean `knocked down` a V1 by flipping it onto its back with the Meteor`s wingtip. In total 3875 Meteors were built, in over 34 versions, for 14 different nations and it changed the course of military aviation across the world.
A Vertical Stationary Steam Engine, same as the Stuart 10V, in green, with single cylinder and spoked flywheel, height 15cm; A Stirling Hot Air Beam Engine, with pierced flywheel, on a wooden base; A Hot Air Engine, with rolling marble tube, pierced flywheel, the wooden base set with a spirit level (3)
Wodehouse (P.G.) Ring for Jeeves first edition" jacket chipped with loss tears repaired with sticky tape 1953; Full Moon tape-marks on inner flaps of jacket and front paste-downs [1947]; Barmy in Wonderland 1952; Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 1954; Cocktail Time1958 original cloth dust-jacket a few nicks and chips to extremities slightly rubbed; and c.25 others by or about Wodehouse" 8vo(c.30)
Lindbergh, Charles Photograph of Charles Lindbergh standing before the Spirit of St. Louis, inscribed "To Waterman Fountain Pen" and signed "Charles G. Lindbergh" to lower right, 21 x 16cm, undated Note: The aviator Charles Lindbergh piloted the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1927.
Africa - Mackenzie, D.R. The spirit-ridden Konde. London, 1925. 8vo, plates, original blue cloth gilt; Cranworth, Lord Profit and sport in British East Africa. London, 1919. 8vo, plates, original green cloth gilt, rubbed at edges; Maclean, Norman Africa in transformation. London, 1913. 8vo, plates, original blue cloth gilt, backstrip faded, previous inscriptions on endpapers; Campbell, Dugald Wanderings in Central Africa. London, 1929. 8vo, plates, original orange cloth gilt; Johnson, Martin Over African jungles. London, 1935. 8vo, plates, original green cloth gilt; Roome, William J.W. Tramping through Africa. London, 1930. 8vo, plates, original brown cloth gilt; Statham, Colonel J.C.B. With my wife across Arfica by canoe and caravan. London, [no date]. 8vo, plates, original decorative green cloth gilt, spotting to title; Watteville, Vivienne de Out in the blue. London, 1927. 8vo, plates, original blue cloth gilt, rubbed at edges; Barns, T. Alexander An African eldorado. London, 1926. 8vo, plates, original yellow cloth, backstrip fading, foxing; Oswald, Felix Alone in sleeping-sickness country. London, 1915. 8vo, original red cloth gilt; Leakey, L.S.B. White African. London, 1937. 8vo, plates, original black cloth, rubbed; and 6 others (17) Provenance: From the library of the late R. Campbell-Hewson, specialist bookseller in Africana.
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