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Sorry, I should have said "A quick look in Hughes "History of Air Navigation" reveals no mention of the R34's" double Atlantic crossing in 1919.  The private v government airships were the Government funded privately designed R100 built at Howden in Yorkshire and the the Government funded Air Ministry designed R101 assembled at Cardington in Bedfordshire.  The R100 and R101 arrived ten years after the R34 in 1929/30 although Major Scott had an involvement with all three.  The R101 crashed in bad weather on its first major flight.  After some teething problems, it had been test flown previously with the main players stating they were now satisfied with the ship.