Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1937 — Page 25

The Indianapolis Times

FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1937

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Entered as Second-Class Matter

PAGE 25

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Dr. Hugo Eckener (upper), the Hindenburg in flight and Capt. Ernest Lehmann (lower).

Over Empire State Building.

at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

In the salon of luxury liner.

Bringing ship to earth.

Tiny but comfortable quarters were provided in the passenger cabins. This passenger could write a note home, wash in a basin supplied with hot or cold water, undress and tumble into the lower berth or climb the light ladder to

the upper one.

Careful, general inspections of the craft were made after each trip. A workman is shown above emerging from the giant rudder. Other . mechanics inspected the powerful Diesel engines which, in the four motor gondolas, developed 4200 horsepower,

This was a familiar sight to persons living along the route from America to Europe. The craft is shown here above Friedrichshafen, its home port. Largest in the world, the ship had a gas capacity of 7,000,000 cubic feet and was 813 feet long.

Capt. Ernest A. L.ehmann, who survived the explosion, apparently was about to give the “cast off” order to the ground crew, shown holding down the ship, when this picture was taken just before a trial flight in Germany, where the craft was built,

Gleaming corridors that would grace an ocean liner led to the passenger : quarters - within the huge hull. One of the 50 passengers accommodated aboard the ship is shown seeking his room among the 25 double-berthed cabins,