After a brief bit of library research, I can add that Tranum apparantly was one of the few professional parachutists in Britain by 1930. Over Easter 1929, he performed a number of public parachute jumps from Avro 504 G-EBWO over the promenade at Caversham Bridge in Reading – one of these resulted in a ducking in the Thames when he misjudged a change in the wind conditions….
On 2nd March 1930 he gave a demo during an air display at Brooklands with a Russell-Lobe parachute – only to drift in strong winds and end up in the famous sewage farm! On 9th June 1930, he parachuted from 3,000ft in front of 20,000 people as part of a 4-hour ‘Air Fete’ at Woodley Aerodrome, Berkshire. Perhaps others know of other appearances by him elsewhere?
This picture is currently on e-bay, of Tranum meeting The King at Shell-Mex House in 1933.
It’s e-bay item number is: 8204197881
But move quick, it’s only got an hour to run!
PS. Nothing to do with me, just ran across it looking for more BE-2 bits!
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