BRITISH WWI R100 AIRSHIP CAP BADGE.

One of the finest examples of English hand embroidery being the cap badge for an officer on the well known airship the R100. Beautifully gold embroidered badge laid onto red velvet within the King’s Crown. Blue and black very fine ribbed material as a base for the lettering ‘Royal Airship Works’. The R100 was one of a pair of airships, The R100 constructed at the Royal Naval Air Station in Yorkshire, the other airship was the ill-fated R101 constructed in Cardignton, Bedfordshire. The R100 made her maiden flight in December 1929 and was then formally handed over to the Air Ministry and then departed for Canada in July 1930. After the crash in Beauvais France of the R101 in October 1930 the Air Ministry ordered the R100 grounded and all airship production after that was halted. The R100 was sold for scrap in November 1931. An important artefact being an officers cap badge from the graceful era of airship travel.

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