ZUM4870074: Aug. 08, 1953 - Mr R.A. Butler. Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir Thomas Dugdale, Minister of Agriculture, went gtouse shooting on the Yorkshire Moors, with Viscount Swinton's party, near Masham yesterday-” The Glorious Twelfth”. Keystone photo shows: Sir Thomas Dugdale on his way to the butts yesterday. Keystone 667 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870184: Aug 08, 1953 - Nevile Duke makes record speed attempt.. flies the hawker hunter: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ record of 715.09 m.p.h., at present held ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Jet. He made the flight ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ capture the record he will have to reach a speed of 722,847 m.p.h / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870213: Aug. 08, 1953 - The First one who arrived for the conference of the foreign ministers in BadenBaden was Belgian foreign minister Paul Van Zeeland (left), He arrived on Echterdingen airport where he was welcomed by the chief of protocol Baron Von Herwarth in the name of the Federal Government. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870343: Aug. 08, 1953 - Professor Piccard's” Bathysphere” is launched in Italy: Professor Piccard's” Bathysphere”, the vessel in which he hopes to explore the depths of the Tyrrhenean Sea, and set up a record dive of 13,000-ft., was launched at Castellamare dio Stabia, Italy. The vessel consists of two main parts - a cigar-shaped structure of watertight compartments which will house the special liquid which will be used for surfacing, and a lower part which is the actual sphere from which observations will be made / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870381: Aug. 08, 1953 - Professor Piccard makes first descent in his new” Bathysphere”: Professor Piccard the famous Swiss Belgian physicist was accompanied by his son Jacques when he newly designed bathysphere” Trieste”, at Castellamara di Stabia, near Naples. He hopes to reach a depth of 13,000 feet during experiments near the Islands of Ponza to study and photograph the sea bed. During these tests three dives of 40 feet, lasting a few minutes only were made / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870566: Aug. 08, 1953 - Sanders arrives home - Mr. Edgar Sanders, the British businessman who was freed from a Hungarian prison two days ago after serving nearly four years of a 13 years sentence, arrived at Croydon Airport this evening in a special plane, with his wife and three daughters who had flown to Austria to welcome him. Keystone Photo Shows: Mr. Edgar Sanders (centre), seen as he left the airport, after his arrival at Croydon. H/Keystone / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4871276: Aug. 08, 1953 - TV-exhibition in Duesseldorf, West Germany.” A striking evidence for the efficiency of indigenous TV-production is the exhibition presently held in s. all German firms have their products on display here. Amongh a great variety of competitive sets is the” Welt-Funk” (World-Tv-Set, available for DM 788,000. It may be connected to any radio set equipped with special TV-spare-parts / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4871111: Aug. 08, 1953 - Chancellor at the Butts: Mr.A. Butler, the Chancellor of the exchequer, who is on holiday, smiles as he waits for the birds to rise. He is at the butts on the moors at Ma sham, Yorkshire, where, yesterday he was a member of Viscount Swinton's grouse shooting party on” The Glorious Twelfth ' / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870674: Aug. 08, 1953 - Edgar Sanders discharged from Hungarian imprisonment: the British tradesman Edgar Sanders who had been imprisoned for three years in Hungarian had been discharged and arrived in Vienna on his way back to Great Britain. At a press conference at the British Embassy he gave a sensational report / Bridgeman Images