Gloucestershire auction offers far from your normal antiques and collectables line-up

With hindsight, the boast made by the Flying Steam Company – 'To China in Twenty-Four Hours Certain' – was a tad ambitious.

Aviation pioneers William Henson (1812-88) and John Stringfellow (1799-1883) had patented their st…

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