ZUM4875662: Tue 03, 1953 - This was the way the air incident near Regensburg happened. On a press conference held in Wiesbaden the two pilots of the American jet fighters attacked by the Czech jet fighters described the details of the incident which led to serious diplomatic entanglements. Ops: 1st Lieutenant Smith and 1st Lieutenant Brown (right) who was shot down by the Czechs. Keystone Picture dated March 12th, 1953. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4875709: Sep. 09, 1953 - WORLD AIR SEED ATTACKER - WITH HIS FAMILY... TEST PILOT” LUCKY LITHGOW AT HOME... LIEUTENANT. ORDER MIKE (“LUCKY”) LITHGOW Vickers Supermarine chief test pilot - and his co-test pilot MR. LESLIE ROBERT COLQUHOUN are seen to make attempts on beating the world air speed record - set up recently by Sqd. Leader Neville Duke. They are to fly the Vickers Swift F. Jet Fighter which was demonstrated at Farnborough... Mr Colquhoun will make speed test over the course, which is to be at Tripoli - before” Lucky” makes his record attempts... KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: LIEUT. ORDER MIKE (“LUCKY”) LITHGOW and his wife with their children ANTHONY (6) and PHILIPPA (4) in the garden of their home at Stockbridge Hampshire. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4875004: Tue. 03, 1953 - Maurice Thorez (1900-1964) To Return To Paris: The French Communist Leader Photographed On A Stretcher As He Left Paris For Moscow On A Special Plane Put At His Disposal By Vishinski In November 1950. He Is Reported To Be On His Way Back To France After More Than A 2-Year Absence. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4875042: Tue 03, 1953 - New British Centurion tanks arrive for the Defense of Denmark: Denmark has just received the first 16 new Centurion talks from England for the defense of the country, The tanks traveled in a special vessel each weigh 52 tons and costs £64,000. The tanks are being supplied as part of the country's military aid / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4875084: Tue 03, 1953 - Pictures of test plant for gas turbine warships: The British Government has just revealed a hush-hush test plant where the Royal Navy is testing out gas-turbine marine engines that will power super-fast warships as a form of “over-drive”. The test plant is at the National Gas Turbine Establishment, Fernborough, England, where much of the back-room work on British jet aircraft engines has been done / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4876178: Tue 03, 1953 - CRNs Mental Fountain in a for Square.. The Artist Looks on: Work is progressing at the Morris is Singer Foundry, Dorerest Road, on the ornamental foundation to be cast in bronze-and which is to stand in Sloane Square. It is the work of Mr. Gilbest Ledward R.A. it will be 11 feet high- and it is to be a gift from the Lord Leighton Fund. It was hoped to have the fountain in place before the Coronation-but as a bill will have to be passed in Parliament before it is allowed to be place in the Square-This will not be possible / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4876334: Sep. 09, 1953 - WELSH FACTORY GIRLS MEET HOLWOOD FILM STAR. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: WILLIAM LUNDIGAN, the Hollywood film star, who is playing the lead in” Dangerous Voyage” in this country - seen with three Welsh girls from a steel factory, who are at Merton Park Studios making a documentary film about steel works. The girls are (L to R): MISS MARY HYMES, 24, of Swansea. MARGARET DOUST, 36, of port Talbot, and PATRICIA O'Callaghan, 16, also of Port Talbot. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4876397: Sep. 09, 1953 - General Meets Admiral: General Alfred D. Gruenther, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces Europe, shake hands with Admiral Fechteller, Commander of the East Mediterranean Allied Fleets, at Shape this morning. Big naval manoeuvres will shortly take place in the Eastern Mediterranean. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4876410: Sep. 09, 1953 - Soviet delegated attends Radio Conference; Lord de La Warr, Postmaster General, today opened the seventh plenary assembly of the International Radio Consultative Committee, at Church House, Westminster. A party of Russian radio engineers, woman among the led by Conrad Jaingovatov, attended the assembly / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4876063: Sep. 09, 1953 -” Virgins Crown” Honor Revived At A Funeral: Theme diagonal costume of carrying a virgin's crown was carried out at a funeral at Abbott's Ann, near Andover, Hants, today for the first time in 32 years.It is the only place in England where the ceremony is still observed in England where the ceremony is still observed. Virginia's crown is awarded on the death of an un-married person of unblemished character who as born, baptized and confirmed in the parish, and was a communicant of the church there. the crown, made of hazel wood and parchment, is carried at the head of the coffin by two young Virginia of the parish. It is then placed on the front of th church for three weeks. If by tghe ned of that tome no one has challenged of disproved the dead person's right to the honor the crown is hung in the church until it decays. The funeral at which it was arranged to confer the honorary today was that of 72-year-old Miss Florence Jane Wisewell, of Little Ann / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4877275: Sep. 09, 1953 - Jim Blade - With His Hair Standing on End Watches Cartier at Work Out. Keystone Photo Shows: Jim Blade ht U.S. light heavyweight - presented a quser picture when his hair appeared to stand on and - as he watched a work out at Solomon's Gymnasium this afternoon of fellow countrymen Walter Cartier (28) who is in training for his fight next week with Randolph Turpin... Slade is preparing for his contest with Yolande Pompee - on the same bill. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4878066: Sep. 09, 1953 - ConstrThe Wings Of The Federal eagle... will welcome the new chosen members of the German Federation when they enter the full assembly on October 6th. on Wednesday there had been a feast for workmen who had rebuilt and enlarged the meting from within 70 days. In future the black-wall of the general meeting room will not more covered by the escutcheons of the various countries but by the federal eagle. / Bridgeman Images