Historic The Daily Express Broadsheet Newspaper | Monday, October 6, 1930 | Lead Story to the Front Cover Headline: The R101 Crashes and is Destroyed: Lord Thomson, Sir Sefton Brancker and 44 Others Burned To Death

[Air Vice Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker KCB, AFC (22 March 1877 - 5 October 1930), was an officer in the Royal Air Force and pioneer in British civil and military aviation].

Published by Printed and Published by London Express Newspaper Ltd., 8 Shoe Lane, London Monday, October 6 1930., 1930

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Broadsheet newspaper, 20 pages. Together with Lord Thomson, the Air Minister, Sefton Brancker was killed when the airship R101 crashed near Beauvais, France on 5 October 1930, during its maiden voyage to India, the newspaper carries many harrowing and historic photographs throughout. Tanning to the edges and the folded line across the centre, in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ZEPPELINS, AIRSHIPS & BALLOONING.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Historic The Daily Express Broadsheet Newspaper | Monday, October 6, 1930 | Lead Story to the Front Cover Headline: The R101 Crashes and is Destroyed: Lord Thomson, Sir Sefton Brancker and 44 Others Burned To Death
• Publisher: Printed and Published by London Express Newspaper Ltd., 8 Shoe Lane, London Monday, October 6 1930.
• Publication Date: 1930
• Condition: Very Good