Full titles read: "Up-to-date week-enders - Motors are becoming oldfashioned [sic] - Holidaymakers now depart by air on their weekend trips." (may be incorrect - titles are obscured by time-code.)
Hanworth Aerodrome, Feltham.
Various shots show a couple packing their luggage into the...
Full titles read: "Up-to-date week-enders - Motors are becoming oldfashioned [sic] - Holidaymakers now depart by air on their weekend trips." (may be incorrect - titles are obscured by time-code.)
Hanworth Aerodrome, Feltham.
Various shots show a couple packing their luggage into the back of a biplane on an airfield. They get into the cockpit seats and the plane moves off for takeoff as a small group of people wave goodbye to them. Another couple are seen in their plane, ready for take off, the woman turns and tells a friend in a very plummy voice "We'll send you a wire when we get there". A different aeroplane takes off from the airfield.
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