Pioneering transatlantic biplane was stripped for mementos at crash site
A brass cap for a fuel tank retrieved from the crash site of Alcock and Brown’s Vickers Vimy biplane in County Galway in 1919 sold for £2000 at Ellis Willis & Beckett (24.5% buyer’s premium) in Sheffield.
According to a handwritten label, it was liberated at the time by Hugh Bristley, a station master a…