Saw the colorized photo online and looked up to see what kind of aircraft it was, as I thought it was very
interesting looking. Then found a couple of other photos that may have been taken the same day.....maybe?
The 4-blade props appear to be 2 single props bolted together.
"G-AAUD Hanno
Refuelling Hanno at Samakh, Tiberias (now in Israel), October 1931. Re-coloured picture
G-AAUD, production number 42/3, was named after the Carthaginian explorer Hanno the Navigator, who explored the Atlantic coast of Africa in approx. 570 BC. Hanno first flew on 19 July 1931 and was later converted to a H.P.42(W) (Hannibal class). The aircraft was impressed into No. 271 Squadron RAF and was destroyed in a gale at Whitchurch Airport, Bristol when it was blown together with Heracles and damaged beyond repair on 19 March 1940."
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