An archive of material relating to the life and career of Imperial Airways mechanic Fred Howard Mason including approximately 270 postcards, circa 1900/1920s, many real photo postcards featuring aircraft and Mason himself, many of the postcards written to Mason as he was growing up from his family and then many from Mason to his parents and sister in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, including approximately 90 postally unused postcards of aviation interest, together with over 200 postcard-size and smaller mostly family photos, some of aviation interest and featuring Mason, plus a pilot's logbook "No. 2" covering the period 1924-26, six small and worn pocket diaries of earlier dates, various certificates and documentation, including marriage certificate, will, pilot's certificate, various teacher's certificates and related, plus a small group of letters and manuscript documents, plus various Air Ministry and HMSO printed reports for air estimates, etc., eight technical engine manuals and similar, etc., largely unsorted but the postcards loosely contained in four modern plastic albums Fred Howard Mason died at the age of 29 while working as a mechanic for Imperial Airways, when the Handley Page he was travelling in stalled and crashed in fog after an engine fire at Neufchatel, Boulogne, France. (a large carton)
An archive of material relating to the life and career of Imperial Airways mechanic Fred Howard Mason including approximately 270 postcards, circa 1900/1920s, many real photo postcards featuring aircraft and Mason himself, many of the postcards written to Mason as he was growing up from his family and then many from Mason to his parents and sister in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, including approximately 90 postally unused postcards of aviation interest, together with over 200 postcard-size and smaller mostly family photos, some of aviation interest and featuring Mason, plus a pilot's logbook "No. 2" covering the period 1924-26, six small and worn pocket diaries of earlier dates, various certificates and documentation, including marriage certificate, will, pilot's certificate, various teacher's certificates and related, plus a small group of letters and manuscript documents, plus various Air Ministry and HMSO printed reports for air estimates, etc., eight technical engine manuals and similar, etc., largely unsorted but the postcards loosely contained in four modern plastic albums Fred Howard Mason died at the age of 29 while working as a mechanic for Imperial Airways, when the Handley Page he was travelling in stalled and crashed in fog after an engine fire at Neufchatel, Boulogne, France. (a large carton)
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