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RCS/RCMS 20/2 contains:
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2 British Aviation Mission and London to Cape Town Flight
3 United States, Europe and Africa
4 Cape Flight - Spitsbergen
5 Egypt
6 First African survey
7 First African mission
8 Africa
9 Cape to Cairo Air Route Organization
10 Arrival in India
11 Delhi-Simla-Burma
12 India, 1936-38
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Tymms collection on civil aviation

Title First African mission
Reference RCMS 20/2/7
Covering Dates Jan. 1928-Aug. 1928
Extent and Medium 1 album; The photographs are in fair to good condition.
Content and context

Photographs taken in Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

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Indexed

Index Terms
Africa
Egypt
Kenya
Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
RCS/RCMS 20/2/7 contains:
1 Assouan (Shellal) - Phylae Temple. 138 x 52 mm. 1928
2 Nile near Korosko. 76 x 51 mm. 1928
3 Nile near Korosko. 99 x 110 mm. 1928
4 Assouan (Shellal). Seaplane Station Site on right. 140 x 70 mm. 1928
5 The Nile at Sebua. 76 x 51 mm. 1928
6 [Sudan]. 76 x 51 mm. A group of Africans, one seated on a camel. 1928
7 The Blue Nile at Khartoum - Mogren Quays. 140 x 92 mm. 1928
8 [Rail line]. 76 x 51 mm. A railway line, probably at Khartoum. 1928
9 White Nile at Khartoum. 75 x 51 mm. The White Nile Bridge. 1928
10 Khartoum - White Nile Bridge. 78 x 51 mm. 1928
11 [Khartoum countryside]. 78 x 52 mm. A group of animals beneath trees. 1928
12 Mogren Point - Khartoum - looking towards Omdurman. 139 x 84 mm. 1928
13 Khartoum - Blue Nile. 78 x 52 mm. Boats on the shore. 1928
14 Khartoum - Blue Nile. 52 x 77 mm. A boat on the river. 1928
15 Kosti - river steamers. 139 x 81 mm. 1928
16 [River Nile at Kosti]. 77 x 52 mm. A man carrying a box, with the river and bank in the background. 1928
17 The Nile above Kosti. 52 x 76 mm. Men on the shorefront. 1928
18 The Nile above Kosti. 77 x 52 mm. 1928
19 Kosti Railway Bridge. 77 x 52 mm. 1928
20 The Nile at Gelhak. 139 x 87 mm. 1928
21 [Africans in Sudan]. 77 x 51 mm. 1928
22 Shillouks. 87 x 139 mm. Two Africans standing in front of huts. 1928
23 [Africans in The Sudd]. 52 x 77 mm. 1928
24 The Sudd - papyrus swamp. 140 x 62 mm. 1928
25 Sudd Bank near Lake No. 77 x 52 mm. 1928
26 Thor Jath in the Sudd. 77 x 51 mm. 1928
27 River steamer in the Sudd. 138 x 63 mm. 1928
28 The Nile near Jebelein. 139 x 77 mm. 1928
29 The Sudd - elephant grass. 139 x 99 mm. 1928
30 [Boat on the Nile]. 87 x 135 mm. 1928
31 The Sudd bank near Shambe. 138 x 98 mm. 1928
32 [Sudanese village]. 77 x 51 mm. 1928
33 [Four Africans]. 51 x 77 mm. 1928
34 Bor. 77 x 49 mm. The town viewed from the river. 1928
35 [Africans in Sudan]. 78 x 51 mm. 1928
36 Mongalla. 76 x 50 mm. 1928
37 Nile Bank near Mongalla. 139 x 100 mm. 1928
38 The Nile at Juba. 137 x 80 mm. 1928
39 [Four Africans in Sudan]. 87 x 139 mm. 1928
40 The Nile at Juba. 77 x 52 mm. 1928
41 The Nile at Juba. 139 x 78 mm. 1928
42 Rejaf Hotel. 77 x 52 mm. 1928
43 Rejaf Hotel. 51 x 77 mm. 1928
44 [Huts at Rejaf]. 77 x 52 mm. 1928
45 Rejaf. 140 x 99 mm. A view of the town from a hill. 1928
46 Anthill - Mongalla Province. 78 x 118 mm. 1928
47 Rejaf. 77 x 52 mm. A van next to the river. 1928
48 [Rejaf]. 77 x 52 mm. 1928
49 [Rejaf]. 77 x 51 mm. A view of countryside, with buildings in the background, possibly at Rejaf. 1928
50 [Sudanese countryside]. 139 x 99 mm. 1928
51 [People on road]. 51 x 77 mm. 1928
52 Owen Falls - Jinja. 77 x 52 mm. 1928
53 Ripon Falls - Jinja. 139 x 86 mm. 1928
54 Below Ripon Falls. 76 x 55 mm. 1928
55 Ripon Falls. 79 x 55 mm. 1928
56 The Mau Plateau - near Timboroa. 139 x 50 mm. 1928
57 [Mau Plateau]. 77 x 55 mm. A group of Africans, probably on the Mau Plateau. 1928
58 [Mau Plateau]. 79 x 56 mm. A crowd of people and a boat, probably on the Mau Plateau. 1928
59 The Mau Plateau - near Timboroa (8500 feet). 139 x 83 mm. 1928
60 Bamboo Forest - Mau Summit (9000 feet). 98 x 139 mm. 1928
61 Jinja? Uganda. 79 x 55 mm. A hut. 1928
62 [Mountain in Kenya]. 79 x 55 mm. A view of the top of a mountain, probably in Kenya. 1928
63 Tony G. Tony Gladstone and other men with a car. 1928
64 Maia Carbery - Nairobi. 127 x 79 mm. Maia Carbery standing in front of the plane 'Miss Propaganda', with a man making an adjustment to the front of the plane. 1928
65 [Maia Carbery]. 76 x 51 mm. 1928
66 Nairobi (Ngong Road) aerodrome. 78 x 53 mm. Three men, identified in the caption as Heufl(?), Carbery and Cobham, standing next to a plane. 1928
67 [Kenyans at work in a field]. 79 x 53 mm. 1928
68 [Bathing party at Clairmont near Nairobi]. 76 x 52 mm. The bathers are Carberry, Mrs Carberry, Bentell, Miss Thomas (a friend of Gladstone's) and Tony Gladstone. 1928
69 [Racecourse at Kenya]. 77 x 52 mm. An area of open land with lines of fencing, possibly a racecourse. 1928
70 [Kikuyu woman]. 76 x 131 mm. 1928
71 Nairobi - Ngong Road. 76 x 51 mm. An overturned vehicle. 1928
72 [Two Kikuyu women]. 53 x 75 mm. 1928
73 [Cars on road]. 79 x 54 mm. Two cars, one of which is being worked on, probably on the Nairobi-Ngong Road. 1928
74 Kajiado. 130 x 76 mm. The town viewed from the distance. 1928
75 Masai herdsmen on the Kajiado Plains. 51 x 76 mm. 1928
76 [Three African women]. 77 x 53 mm. Probably at Kajiado. 1928
77 [Two African men]. 52 x 78 mm. Probably at Kajiado. 1928
78 Kajiado drift. 127 x 78 mm. Two vans stuck in a drift at Kajiado on the way from Nairobi to Tanganyika. The vans were freed with the aid of twelve oxen and twenty men after being stuck for six hours. 1928
79 Ox team rescue. 79 x 53 mm. The extraction of two vans from the Kajiado drift. The vans were travelling from Nairobi to Tanganyika. They were freed with the aid of twelve oxen and twenty men after being stuck for six hours. 1928
80 Longido Boma. 78 x 54 mm. Three men standing in front of huts. 1928
81 Savannah near Longido - Lemmelebbu Mts. 139 x 98 mm. 1928
82 Bush country at Longido. 137 x 78 mm. Three men in the country. 1928
83 Grass plains N.W. of Arusha. 138 x 96 mm. A car on a road. 1928
84 [River Karanga]. 78 x 134 mm. The River Karanga, near Moshi. 1928
85 Forest near Moshi. 54 x 72 mm. 1929
86 Mt Kilimanjaro. 78 x 52 mm. 1928
87 Moshi landing ground site (Candelabra Euphorbia). 138 x 95 mm. 1928
88 Moshi landing ground site (game track). 134 x 95 mm. 1928
89 Baobab tree - Moshi. 75 x 135 mm. 1928
90 Handeni Boma. 79 x 52 mm.
91 Elephant grass on Handeni - Korogwe Rd. 96 x 134 mm. Tony Gladstone and an African with a car. 1928
92 Gladstone and UBO. 77 x 50 mm. 1928
93 The broken culvert. 79 x 52 mm. 1928
94 The result. 135 x 77 mm. 'Exide battery on Buick box body car after being swept off the car and mostly demolished in passing over a broken down culvert in Tanganyika. One cell was completely destroyed, the other two damaged, and the whole of the acid spilled. The remaining two cells were filled with ditch water, wiring improvised and the car driven 40 miles to the railway' (taken from a note on the back of RCMS 20/2/8/1/34). 1928
95 Fuel for the tender. 79 x 53 mm. Africans loading wood onto a train. 1928
96 Secretariat. 75 x 52 mm. The front of the Secretariat, probably in Dar es Salaam. 1928
97 War wreck. 78 x 51 mm. Two men on the top of a building in Dar es Salaam. 1928
98 [Ship at Dar es Salaam]. 77 x 51 mm. 1928
99 [Dar es Salaam countryside]. 72 x 50 mm. 1928
100 [Dar es Salaam harbour]. 77 x 54 mm. 1928
101 Dar es Salaam harbour. 78 x 50 mm. 1928
102 Dar es Salaam harbour. 76 x 50 mm. 1928
103 Dar es Salaam harbour. 76 x 48 mm. 1928
104 Dar es Salaam harbour. 75 x 55 mm. 1928
105 [Africans dancing]. 75 x 51 mm. 1928
106 [Man with drum]. 52 x 73 mm. 1928
107 [Drummer and crowd]. 77 x 51 mm. 1928
108 [Crowd of Africans]. 77 x 51 mm. 1928
109 Mwanza Seaplane Station Site. 114 x 66 mm. 1928
110 Mwanza Seaplane Station Site. 89 x 67 mm. 1928
111 Mwanza landing ground. 151 x 98 mm. 1928
112 Nairobi to Dar es Salaam. Second crash. 133 x 77 mm. A parked car with a damaged front. 1928
113 [Train]. 134 x 77 mm. A group of people standing next to a train carriage, possibly at Zanzibar. 1928
114 Commis[s]ioner - Mwanza. 76 x 108 mm. Frederick Tymms and the Commissioner. 1928
115 [Tymms and company]. 134 x 76 mm. Frederick Tymms with two men and a woman, probably at Mwanza. 1928
116 Mwanza Bay. 77 x 51 mm. 1928
117 [Tymms and company]. 77 x 51 mm. Frederick Tymms with two men and a woman, probably at Mwanza. 1928
118 Mwanza landing ground. 135 x 75 mm. 1928
119 Mwanza landing ground. 133 x 73 mm. 1928
120 Mwanza landing ground. 133 x 73 mm. 1928
121 K.A.R. Parade. Dar. es. Salam. 135 x 78 mm. 1928
122 [K.A.R. Parade. Dar. es. Salam]. 135 x 77 mm. 1928
123 [Three men]. 75 x 51 mm. 1928
124 Mwanza Bay. 76 x 51 mm. A boat in the bay. 1928
125 [K.A.R. Parade. Dar. es. Salam]. 135 x 76 mm. 1928
126 Kisumu Seaplane Station Site. 135 x 78 mm. 1928
127 [Africans with luggage]. 77 x 54 mm. 1928
128 Kavirondo Gulf. 78 x 52 mm. A boat in the gulf. 1928
129 Mwanza. 138 x 97 mm. 1928
130 [Tymms in the countryside]. 77 x 51 mm. 1928
131 Londiani-grass flat on Mau Plateau. 75 x 51 mm. 1928
132 Nairobi-Mbgathi Road new aerodrome site. 152 x 108 mm. 1928
133 [Waterfall]. 51 x 77 mm. 1928
134 [Man in countryside]. 77 x 52 mm. 1928
135 Nairobi-Mbgathi Road aerodrome site. 152 x 108 mm. Zebras on a plain. 1928
136 [Waterfall]. 77 x 51 mm. 1928
137 [House]. 75 x 51 mm. 1928
138 [Miss Africa]. 78 x 54 mm. A man seated on a plane, the 'Miss Africa', next to two other men. 1928
139 [Man and two women]. 53 x 77 mm. 1928
140 Nairobi-Mbgathi Road aerodrome site. 151 x 107 mm. A car parked on a plain. 1928
141 [Plain]. 77 x 51 mm.
The photograph is faded..		 1928
142 Cochrane Patrick. 76 x 51 mm. 1928
143 [Two planes on a plain]. 77 x 51 mm.
The photograph is faded..		 1928
144 [Three planes]. 76 x 53 mm. 1928
145 Landscape near Limoru. 138 x 97 mm. 1928
146 [House]. 76 x 50 mm. 1928
147 [Countryside]. 75 x 49 mm. Possibly in Kenya. 1928
148 [Houses and countryside]. 76 x 50 mm. Possibly in Kenya.
A small part of the bottom of the photograph has broken off..		 1928
149 [Countryside]. 73 x 50 mm. Possibly in Kenya. 1928
150 Port Bell - Seaplane Station site on left. 97 x 63 mm. 1928
151 Port Bell. 112 x 63 mm. 1928
152 Entebbe - landing ground site. 101 x 78 mm. 1928
153 Entebbe - landing ground site. 111 x 78 mm. 1928
154 [Ugandan countryside]. 74 x 47 mm. 1928
155 [Ugandan countryside]. 59 x 47 mm. 1928
156 Lake Victoria - Mkakata (west side). 137 x 97 mm. 1928
157 [Three Africans]. 51 x 74 mm. 1928
158 Masaka. 50 x 75 mm. A path leading up to a house, with a woman standing in front of it. 1928
159 [Ugandan countryside]. 76 x 50 mm. 1928
160 Rufigi River Valley (Uganda) papyrus swamp. 137 x 97 mm. 1928
161 Kigesi Province. S.W. Uganda. 77 x 50 mm. A road running through countryside. 1928
162 [Africans of Kigesi Province]. 76 x 50 mm. 1928
163 [Bridge in Kigesi Province]. 77 x 51 mm. 1928
164 [African woman in Kigesi Province]. 51 x 77 mm. 1928

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