The Air Way - Official Handbook describing the Activities of Imperial Airways

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Printed yapp wraps 15x22cm, with colour plate mounted to the front. 76pp with many b/w photos and adverts. Covers good only, marked, and worn along the edges, lean to spine, interiors very good. Undated but 1930 based on latest date spotted in the text 16 June 1930 (p22) and reference to the Alexandria-Tanganyika service due to start in Jan 1931 (p21). Contents include Imperial Airways' stations, town offices and aerodromes, its history, present situation, maintenance, England and the Channel from the air, the journeys to Switzerland, Brussels and Cologne, and finally the England-India Air Mail: "Truly it seems more like magic than reality to ascend from London on Saturday and to be at Alexandria on the following Monday evening; to be at Gaza on Tuesday morning; at Baghdad on Tuesday evening; at Basra on Wednesday; and in India on Friday" (p65). N° de ref. del artículo 5015

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