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Handley Page type V/1500 four engined Berlin bomber with four Rolls Royce Eagle Mark VIII" engines ..." – Vintage Print

Handley Page type V/1500 four engined Berlin bomber with four Rolls Royce Eagle Mark VIII" engines ...", [between 1918 and 1925] — historic photograph
Handley Page type V/1500 four engined Berlin bomber with four Rolls Royce Eagle Mark VIII" engines ...", [between 1918 and 1925]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Handley Page type V/1500 four engined Berlin bomber with four Rolls Royce Eagle Mark VIII" engines ...", preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Handley Page type V/1500 four engined Berlin bomber with four Rolls Royce Eagle Mark VIII" engines ..."

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Its title names Berlin as the target, which points to the aircraft's purpose. The Handley Page V/1500 was a British four-engined heavy bomber built near the end of the First World War, designed to carry bombs far enough to strike German cities, including the capital. The four Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engines gave it the power for that range and load. The war ended before the V/1500 saw combat, so it became better known as an experimental long-range type than as a bomber that flew over Berlin. The print likely dates from the years just after the armistice, when such aircraft were still widely photographed.

Created / published[between 1918 and 1925]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1930.
SubjectsBombers--1910-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,079 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168755

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