Miles – Whitney Straight

Shell poster number 477, Miles-Whitney Straight by Edward McKnight Kauffer. Photograph of the Miles-Whitney Straight monoplane with the text, 'Lubrication by Shell'.

Key facts

  • Catalogue Number

    477

  • Title

    Miles – Whitney Straight

  • Date

    1937

  • Artist

    Edward McKnight Kauffer

Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890–1954) designed the exterior colour scheme or livery of the Handy-Heck plane developed for Whitney-Straight in 1932–3. Only one was produced. A watercolour records its colour as chocolate brown and black.

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ISON 260402 BNMM 3454

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