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Correspondence with T Gran
TAYL/D/25 · File · 1973–74
Part of Papers of Sir Geoffrey Taylor (G. I. Taylor)

Tryggve Gran was a Norwegian explorer who had been navigator of the Handley Page bomber entered for the Daily Mail prize contest for the Atlantic air crossing (won by Alcock and Brown in a Vickers machine)
Folder includes a letter from Gran, and related correspondence from colleagues, researchers, etc., and a photocopy of a telegram from the U.S. Minister in Norway re a purported visit by Gran to Berlin, 1939.