Identity area
Reference code
TAYL/D/25
Title
Correspondence with T Gran
Date(s)
- 1973–74 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 bundle
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Repository
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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.