Unfinished Gallery

Stroukoff YC-123E Provider 55-4031

Stroukoff YC-123E-SA Provider 55-4031, modified by Stroukoff Aircraft Corp, Trenton NJ. With Pantobase undercarriage and wing-tip floats for operating off water, snow, ice, and sand, as well as land. This aircraft probably used one of the unfinished Chase C-123B-CN Provider aircraft that were cancelled in 1952 (52-1630, msn 20003 ). When Fairchild took over the airframe as a Fairchild C-123B-FA Provider, the serial changed to 54-0554. On completion this aircraft was allocated to Stroukoff for modification to Pantobase undercarriage standard with serial no. 55-4031

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Sparmannia africana, African linden

Sparmannia africana, African linden - African linden, Sparmannia africana, by Franz Bauer, undated. Paper, pencil, watercolour. Unfinished Illustrations of Plants, vol. 1, no. 67. <br> <br> Held in the Museum's Botany Library

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

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Belgian Patients & VAD Staff, C Ward, Quex Park

Belgian Patients & VAD Staff, C Ward, Quex Park.This ward was situated in the second of the two Museum galleries, built in the early 1900s and unfinished in 1914. There were fifteen beds in this ward. The three VADs are members of the Westgate Detachment Kent/64 which worked at the hospital until 10 November 1914. The one on the left is wearing an armband of the Order of St John. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919. The hospital was run by Kent/178, the Birchington Detachment. The Commandant was Hannah Powell-Cotton (1881-1964), wife of Major Percy HG Powell-Cotton (1866-1940) of Quex Park, founder of the Powell-Cotton Museum. Date: 1914

© The Powell-Cotton Museum Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library