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Fairey Swordfish specification Sl5/33: preliminary consideration of design. Includes...
Catalogue reference: AVIA 8/533
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This record is about the Fairey Swordfish specification Sl5/33: preliminary consideration of design. Includes... dating from 1933-1936 in the series Air Ministry and successors: Inventions, and Research and Development, Registered.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- AVIA 8/533
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1933-1936
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Fairey Swordfish specification Sl5/33: preliminary consideration of design.
Includes 2 photographs depicting: (1) Armament trials: Lewis MK 111 A mounted on rocking pillar No 1 aft of gunner's cockpit (2) Torpedo, spotter, reconnaissance (Fairey) aircraft K 4190 (composite photograph). Dated 1934 - 1935.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- 289001/33
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1977438/
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