Civil Aviation
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 1,500 items related to civil aviation. These date from 1910 to 1999. This collection is primarily made up from the 1,000 paper items which form the Laura McDougall collection. These items relate to all aspects of Northern & Scottish Airways operations from 1938 to 1940. It also includes Captain Eric Starling’s log books and associated material from 1931 to 1982 which relates to the early days of Scottish civil aviation; the mail delivery service and the Scottish Air Ambulance. Technological items include two early experimental aero-engines built by A.B. Baird and Robert Black in 1910 and 1913 respectively; a Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engine, which was used to test the effects of bird strike in prototyping for Concorde; and an x-ray machine and hand-scanners that relate to airport security. The collection also notably encompasses items donated by Dr Jim Swire that relate to the Lockerbie air disaster of 1988 and a wooden propeller from pre-World War II aircraft. The civil aviation collection previously comprised of a further 1,000 objects, which represented the operations, marketing and advertising of a variety of airlines between 1955 and 1985. It consisted of about 350 items of costume and 650 other items relating to passenger travel and comfort, such as cutlery, glassware, crockery, marketing products, sleep masks and irons. Other items include tickets, posters, labels, timetables, marketing and advertising material. These objects were transferred to the care of the National Museum of Flight in East Fortune.
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Aeroplane and Aerospace Models
Civil Aviation Operational Material