DE HAVILLAND ENSIGN AIR LINER Builders: Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd. Span: 127 ft; length: 114 ft; weight: 20 tons. Passengers: 27. Crew 4. Engines 4 "Tiger" air cooled. Total h.p. 3200. Speed: approx. 200 m.p.h. These machines are specially designed for European and Empire Air routes. The picture shows the liner flying over Folkestone Harbour.

DE HAVILLAND ALBATROSS AIRLINER, 1939 G-AFDI 'Frobisher' of the Imperial Airways Fleet over Croydon Airport.

SHORTS CANOPUS Flying boat over Rochester, 1936

SHORT C CLASS One of the 28 new Empire flying boats of Imperial Airways. Two decks, four engines, 2960 horsepower, 200 miles per hour.

AVRO 652 (G-ACRN) Two examples: Ava (previously Avatar) & Avalon. Supplied to Imperial Airways for feeder line & charter work. When fitted with supercharged "Cheetah" engines of 310 h.p. has a maximum speed of 195 m.p.h. Carries 6 passengers.

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS LINER "SCYLLA" (G-ACJJ) Sister ship of "Syrinx". 4 Bristol "Jupiter" engines of 555 h.p. each. Speed, about 137 m.p.h. Seating accommodation for 39 passengers.

70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST UNITED KINGDOM AERIAL POST 1911-1981 This card, designed by Ronald Maddox, is issued by the National Postal Museum to commemorate the presentation of a replica Air Mail Letter Box to the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the First Aerial Post in the United Kingdom. The card shows an Air Mail Letter Box outside the London EC District Office, King Edward Street, London EC1 with a special air mail collection vehicle in the background. This box was one of the first to be installed in June 1930. This card was flown at Old Warden Aerodrome on 31st August 1981.