The Prototype Cierva C.30 Autogyro (Registry number: G-ACRI) built by Cierva Autogiro Co Ltd.,of Hanworth, Middlesex, UK. It comes in to land on a grass field, under rotor power only, with its forward engine and propeller stopped. The pilot then starts the forward engine and takes off using power from it and the top rotor.
Air-to-ground footage of London Air Park (Hanworth aerodrome), showing hangars and Hanworth Park House in the centre of the grass airfield, plus surrounding houses and A312 Uxbridge Road. Pilot walks toward camera from Pitcairn Model C-130 autogiro G-ACIO. Pilot and others discuss the flight. Pilot poses next to the autogyro.
French civilians, on a boulevard in Paris, France, look on as a pilot boards a British Avro Rota autogyro (Cierva C.30A, British Civil Registration number G-ACWH). The autogyro, one of a dozen built for the British Royal Air Force, by Cierva Autogiro Co Ltd of Hanworth, UK, makes a demonstration takeoff and landing on the boulevard.
A new high capacity steam truck demonstrated at Bluefield in West Virginia, USA. The manufacturer's name, ' THE SENTINEL WAGGON WORKS LTD, SHREWSBURY, ENGLAND ' written on the truck. The loaded truck moves uphill. Additional information on this truck: This is the Sentinel S4 steam waggon, Number 9095. Built 1933 by Sentinel Waggon Works, Shrewsbury, England and exported as a demonstration vehicle to the USA with a works driver. Within a short time the vehicle was involved in an accident and overturned, requiring it to be returned to the UK. Many of the salvageable parts, especially those used to convert it to left hand drive were then fitted to a 6 wheel waggon No 9142 which was sent as a replacement. This vehicle was later purchased by the Pocahontas Coal Company of New Bedford. After a very short working life it was displayed at the Long Island Motor Museum, and Steamtown before being reaptriated to the UK in 2003.
Amelia Earhart in between crowd, as British people hails her ocean victory, in Hanworth, England. Amelia walks with a man. She comes out of a building. She sits in a car surrounded by the people.
Shows U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam surrounded by a large crowd at an airfield in Hanworth,England. Amelia walks off the airfield accompanied by the crowd. She poses with some officers and then enters a car.