Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

R80

From Graces Guide

Barnes Wallis invented a technique for creating the frame of the airship from standardized components fitted into a non-rectilinear framework. All tubing used was of a special spiral-wound type of superior strength, and all wiring colour-coded.

1921 This British rigid airship, with two-thirds the capacity of the R34, was completed at Barrow after being nearly 3 years "on the stocks"[1]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1921/01/14