Adolphe Pégoud and Louis Bleriot Product:Greetings card 25th July 1964

25th July 1964

Gladstone announced that he would accept the pressure and combine both Franchise and Redistribution into one Reform Bill

Inscribed: 'Plan shewing the Positions of the Remarkable Peaks and Mountains as seen from Bencoolen With part of the Coast of Sumatra

first published in 1682

6th Earl of Leicester

Adolphe Pégoud and Louis Bleriot Product:Greetings card 25th July 1964Adolphe Pgoud and Louis Bleriot, French aviators, Brooklands, Surrey, 1913. Adolphe Clestin Pgoud (1889 1915) was a test pilot for Bleriot (1872 1936), the French pilot and aircraft designer who was the first to fly across the Enlgish Channel. Pgoud famously looped the loop on 21 September 1913. It was publicised as the first successful completion of the manoeuvre but it later transpired that Pyotr Nesterov, a Russian army pilot, had achieved the feat