Hi all,
Again, some great documents on the HP O/400 and HP V/1500 have surfaced.
A fellow modeler, active on Britmodeller found these at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia in the United States.
Thank you Joshua!
This is primarily a promotional document, advertising the Handley Page O/400 and V/1500 in English, French and Spanish:
Then there is this document with the easy-gong name “GUIDE TO THE ASSMBLY AND ERECTION OF THE HANDLEY PAGE TWIN TRACTOR BIPLANE, TYPE O/400":
And last but not least a folder with miscellaneous report on engine tests with Rolls-Royce, Liberty, and Hispano Souza engines, technical data of the electrical installations and armament (confirming a ventral gun position), and reports on the visits to the William Beardmore facilities in Glasgow and “trips” made in Handley-Page V-1500 serial 4305 from Harland & Wollf, Belfast (some cut short because of weather conditions and minor engine trouble):
Some of the documents were typed on stationary marked:
Headquarters Base Section 3. Line of Communications, A.E.F.
Office Aviation Officer,
35, Eaton Place
London S.W.1.
All the document in this folder were compiled by Howard C. Marmon Lt. Col. A.S., A.P. for Lt. Klemin, stationed at McCook Airfield in Ohio. They are dated 1918-1919 and were not declassified until December 1957.
I realize these documents contribute little (if at all) to building the model, but to me they are gold!
Cheers,
Willem