1929 SCHNEIDER TROPHY ARCHIVE: A wide-ranging collection of material relating to the Schneider Trophy 1929, to include: a loose leaf album containing twenty six period black and white press photographs of scenes around Calshot at the Schneider Trophy: many images annotated in pencil or with type-written captions affixed to versos, extracts of various contemporary periodicals inserted at rear with articles reporting the event and including some of the photographic images present; Southern Railway brochure advertising rates to Schneider Trophy event 1929; Two Official Souvenir Programmes for 1929 one Titled Great Britain and the Schneider Trophy by Royal Aero Club Official Souvenir, the second a 70+ page programme with results page annotated in pencil, Winners booklet of results from 1913 to 1929, Rare RAF flown covers signed by General Jimmy Doolittle 1929, Grp Capt L S Snaith AFC 1931, multisigned 1920/30 competitors AVM Webster AFC, Air Cdre D'Arcy Greig DFC AFC, AVM Long, Grp Capt Snaith AFC, plus 3 other related RAF covers. The photographs include Navy Wright Seaplane, Harry Hawker, Curtiss Racer, Winner in air celebration, David Ritterhouse in his Curtiss, Blackburn Pellet, Salvaging the wreckage of the Crusader Sea plane, Flt Lt Worsley and Napier S5, Seaplane and SS Mauretania, Gloster Napier 6, Flt Lt Lang take off, S6a of L S Snaith taking off, J H Boothman in flight, Jean Assolant preparing in secret, Lt Brinton in Gloster Napier, Sqn Ldr Orlebar being carried ashore. Good condition Est.