The whole gizmo

Lest the complete history be lost to, well, history, the company was actually entitled The Connaught & Cornwall Naval Rigid Airship Design & Construction Works, Ltd., but that wouldn't fit the blog template. As designed, the airship model (some twenty-feet plus, as I recall) wouldn't fit in the apartment we were sharing at the time, either, so that impeded its construction, alas. It would've been a beautiful thing...