As we dig through the boxes a clipping of newsprint surfaces;

From the Daily Herald  10 April 1898…

  Out of the rolling fog that blanketed the city the Jewel slowly appeared, she was a Luxury Class Papillion airliner flown by Thomas Katze Premium Dirigibles. The people of London had become very accustomed to airliners by now, and many of the wealthy even had Personal flying machines 1898 was a very progressive time, and the war seemed far from their comfortable homes.

  Today is the day Thomas announces his retirement and names his successor. News reports have their predictions based on the recent launch of the Felix Angels Personal Dirigible Sedans.

  The crowds gather at Battersea Park, some arriving by balloon, some by steamboat, and many by horse and buggy. As the morning fog burns away, the veins of the city begin showing its lifeblood, the bustle of men, women and children that flow from home to business to park and so on, almost like the workings of an intricate machine, a machine not unlike the Jewel herself.

  Captain Engelbert Blunt Whitetail stands elegantly at the helm of his ship, hands folded over the tall oak wheel ornately accented in brass and steel as he looks, through the panoramic window, upon the crowd of financiers and onlookers eager to hear the news of the day…