This is an amazing find by The 78rpm Channel on YouTube: An audio advertisement for the airship Hindenburg in 1937 aimed at Americans who might be interested in attending the World Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce in Berlin from June 28 to July 3, 1937.

The Zeppelin Company representative explains that airship passengers have never experienced sea sickness, that the Hindenburg’s passenger accommodations had recently been expanded to carry 70 passengers, and that because of the ship’s speed an American businessman who flew roundtrip on Hindenburg could attend the conference and miss only seven working days from his business.

Needless to say, those flights never happened, because Hindenburg was destroyed by fire on May 6, 1937 at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

(Thanks to Hindenburg scholar Carl Close for bringing this to my attention. Carl has been doing original research about Hindenburg passengers for years and has greatly added to our knowledge of the people who flew on Hindenburg. And thanks to Patrick Russell of Faces of the Hindenburg for identifying the Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei (DZR) representative as Wolfgang Lambrecht, a former manager with the Hamburg-Amerika steamship line who by 1937 was serving as the DZR’s publicity manager.)