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Speeding Up The Mails 1932
Description
Full title reads: "Croydon. Speeding up the Mails. Our up-to-date G.P.O. inaugurates first aeroplane 'Royal Mail' service, for Ottawa Conference correspondence."
Croydon, Greater London.
Mail sacks are tossed out of the back of a van which stands on the airfield next to a Royal Mail...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Mark
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 4641
- Sort Number:
- 32/057
- Time in/Out:
- 01:43:11:00 / 01:44:00:00
- Canister:
- 32/57
- Film ID:
- 641.34
- Issue Date:
- 18/07/1932
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This aircraft, registered G-AAGW, is variously described as either a Westland IV or Westland Wessex IV.