Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith NPG 5451

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ivan Opffer

Sopwith was the first British aircraft designer and his firm was famous for British World War I military aircraft such as the Sopwith Camel and Triplane. His mechanical aptitude and enthusiasm led him into the infant aviation scene in 1910. After teaching himself to fly, gaining the aviator's certificate no. 31, and setting up flying records, he found the Sopwith School of Flying in February 1912, and in June, the Sopwith Aviation Company Ltd. By the outbreak of war in August 1914 the Sopwith Aviation... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.