Tag: BOAC
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B.O.A.C. – Leyland Atlantean – LYF 304D
British Overseas Airways Corporation1966Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1MCW CH38/16F In 1940, with Britain at war and civilian air traffic barely existent, Croydon based Imperial Airways formally subsumed the privately owned (though nationally subsidised) British Airways at Heston and became BOAC, though this had been the de facto situation since September 1939. At the end of the war,…
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BOAC – Bedford CAL – MFB 724
British Overseas Airways Corporation1960Bedford CALMartin Walker B10F MFB 724 is a Bedford CAL with Martin Walter minibus body, seating 10 passengers. The PSVC listing says she was new to a private owner in 1960 – the registration suggests somewhere in the Bath area – but is now resident at Brooklands, in the BOAC livery we…