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Deutche Zeppelin-Reederei, between the Wars.

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Graf Zeppelin Lz 127

The Graf Zeppelin (LZ 127) seen over Cardington on 26th April 1930 during the visit of Dr Eckener to the UK to meet the Secretary of State for Air Lord Thompson, who was later to die on the R101 Disaster.

View of the gondola of the Graf Zeppelin on the front of a book by Ernst A Lehmann, called 'Luftpatrouille und Weltfahrt' who later became Captain of the 'Hindenberg', and was on board when the ship crashed in flames. The same gondola is seen here in the Freidrichafen 'Zeppelin' museum in 1996. A fantastic museum on the shores of lake Constance, and well worth the visit. The Graf Zeppelin made a complete round the world flight in 1933, and was the most successful Zeppelin of all. She was retired in 1937 after the Hindenberg fire, and was kept by Eckener as a museum. Eckener was not liked by the Nazi Party (because he would not join) and Herman Goering' took great delight in ordering the Luftwaffe to scrap both remaining Airships in 1940, supposedly for metal for aircraft manufacture. The last airship to be scrapped was the Lz 126 (Los Angeles) that was broken up in the USA in 1941.

Letter flown from Brazil to London,   on the Graf Zeppelin (LZ 127), the most successful Zeppelin of all, on the 7th July 1933.

Hindenberg Lz 129

Letter posted from the USA to Germany on 11 May 1936, and flown on the Hindenberg (LZ 129) in the previous season of transatlantic flights to its final destruction by fire at Lakehurst USA on 6th May 1937.

Letter posted from the Germany to USA on 1st May 1936 from Frankfurt, and flown on the Hindenberg (LZ 129) in the previous season of transatlantic flights to its final destruction by fire at Lakehurst USA on 6th May 1937.

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