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BRITISH AIRWAYS AN AIRLINE AND ITS AIRCRAFT VOLUME 1: 1919-1939 THE IMPERIAL YEARS

Written by R.E.G. Davies
Published by Paladwr Press in 2005
ISBN: 1888962240

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BRITISH AIRWAYS AN AIRLINE AND ITS AIRCRAFT VOLUME 1: 1919-1939 THE IMPERIAL YEARS
Written by R.E.G. Davies.
Stock no. 2140197
1st USA. 2005. Hardback. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Maps to endpapers. Colour illustrations & b/w photos. ISBN: 1888962240.

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Contents

  • Foreword by Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge
  • Author's Preface and Acknowledgements
  • The First Airlines
  • The Vision of George Holt Thomas
  • Airline Blueprint for Britain
  • The First Cross-Channel Air Services
  • Aircraft Transport and Travel
  • The First de Havillands
  • Developing the Breed
  • Handley Page Transport
  • Handley Page O/400
  • The Instone Air Line
  • Vickers Vimy Commercial
  • The Daimler Airway
  • De Havilland D.H. 34
  • The Other Pioneer Airlines
  • British Marine Air Navigation
  • Foundation of Impreial Airways
  • The First Fleet
  • The Inherited Aircraft
  • An Airport for London
  • Survey to India
  • Cobham Blazes an Empire Trail
  • First Routes to the East
  • De Havilland D.H. 66 Hercules
  • The Silver Wing
  • Armstrong Whitworth Argosy
  • Imperial Review its Options
  • First Flight to India
  • Around Africa by Flying Boat
  • Imperial to East Africa
  • Italian Intransigence
  • Short S.8 Calcutta
  • Airship Digression
  • Airships to India the Preparations
  • End of an Era The R.101 Disaster
  • A New Era Begins
  • Short S.17 Kent
  • Handley Page H.P. 42/45
  • Luxury Aloft
  • Behond: a True Airliner
  • Cape-to-Cairo (mostly) by Air
  • Armstrong Whitworth A.W. Atlanta Class
  • Trailblazer to Australia
  • An Empire Network
  • Short L.17 (Scylla/Syrinx)
  • Comfort before Speed
  • Talking to the Air
  • The Second Line
  • Last of the Biplanes
  • Testing the Waters
  • The First British Domestic Routes
  • A Modest Beginning
  • The Pioneer Independents
  • The Curtain Rises
  • De Havilland D.H. 83 Fox Moth
  • De Havilland D.H. 84 Dragon
  • Edward "Ted" Hillman
  • Hillman's Airways
  • Edmund Fresson
  • Highland Airways
  • Eric Gandar Dower
  • Aberdeen/Allied Airways
  • John Sword: First to the Hebrides... and across the Irish Sea
  • Highland Scrapbook
  • Independence Eroded... but independence Retained
  • The Spithead Express
  • Westland Wessex
  • Western Enterprise
  • On the Fringe
  • Two of the Casualties
  • Hardy Survivor
  • The Forces Gather... and Spar for Control
  • Railway Air Services
  • De Havilland D.H. 89 Dragon Rapide
  • The Wake-Up Call
  • The "Mac.Robertson" Race
  • Imperial Struggles On
  • De Havilland D.H. 86 Express
  • Realignment in Britain
  • Scottish Airways
  • Thurgood Thrives
  • Jersey and Guernsey Airways
  • Inter-War Second Force
  • Formation of British Airways
  • Expansion in Europe
  • The First Foreign Aircraft
  • A Fokker and a Junkers
  • Lockheed L-10 Electra
  • The Case fot he Large Flying Boat
  • Short S.23 "C-Class"
  • Atlantic Debut
  • The North Atlantic Survey
  • Flagships of the Imperial Fleet
  • Shrinking the Empire
  • Romance of the Flying Boat... in Faraway Places
  • Armstrong Whitworth A.W. 27 Ensign
  • De Havilland D.H. 91 Albatross
  • Consolidation in Britain
  • De Havilland D.H. 95 Flamingo
  • Restructuring an Industry
  • The Imperial Legacy
  • Bibliography
  • Index