Skip to content
Home
Favourites
0
Advanced search
Shopping cart
0
Register
Log in
Images of Edinburgh
Browse map
Area A - Z
Browse by date
Exhibitions
Current exhibition
All exhibitions
Collections
About the collections
Browse by theme
Subject A - Z
The image library for the collections of Edinburgh Libraries and Museums and Galleries
Images of Edinburgh
Browse map
Area A - Z
Browse by date
Exhibitions
Current exhibition
All exhibitions
Collections
About the collections
Browse by theme
Subject A - Z
Gibson's crafts
Unknown, 1911, Press cutting
Gibson's crafts
Gibson's crafts
Add to favourites
Share
Item record
About this image
Related
Location
Category
Library Item
Item no
38632
Title
Gibson's crafts
Description
An early advert for Gibson's crafts above the man himself at the controls of his first flying machine.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Engraver
Unknown
Date
1911
Size
9.0 x 10.3 cm
Type
Press cutting
John Gibson describing himself as a "Cycle and Motor Engineer" he moved his shop from 122 Leith Walk to 109 Leith Walk in 1903. A propeller from a Gibson plane was given to the Museum of flight and is part of their collection at East Fortune.
Exhibitions with this item
Leith Miscellany XIII
Other views of this item
Related images
Related subjects
People
>
Transportation
>
Air pilots
Places
>
Edinburgh areas
>
Leith
Places
>
Scotland
>
Edinburgh
Transport
>
Air
>
Aeroplanes
More like this