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A Day On The Airway - 25 Cards from 1928 - Imperial Airways

25 cigarette cards produced in 1928 by Nicolas Sarony & Company depicting an Imperial Airways flight from London to Amsterdam, as well as scenes over France and Belgium. 1. Booked for a Flight 2. The Control Tower 3. In Touch With The Pilot 4. Land Lighthouses 5. All Aboard 6. Ready for the Flight 7. Croydon Slides Away Below 8. Over Folkestone At 2,000 Feet 9. Across The Channel In 15 Minutes 10. A Bird's-eye View of Calais 11. Ypres – But How Different! 12. First Sight of Brussels 13. Above The Belgian Capital 14. Historical Bruges 15. Flying Over Ostend 16. The Zeebrugge Mole 17. Flushing Is Below 18. Over The Dutch Islands 19. Rotterdam; Crossing The Maas 20. Windmills And Canals 21. The Hague Peace Palace 22. A Dutch Playground 23. Enlarging A Country 24. The Venice Of The North 25. Down To Earth Music: "Daddy's Gone," a valse musette composed by André Verchuren and made popular by the 1998 Serbian movie “Black Cat, White Cat” / “Црна мачка, бели мачор.” Recorded by Mihail Gavrilov using a Weltmeister Supita accordion. You can see his performance here:    • Style musette - French accordion waltz - M...   Some details from the cards: 3. The importance of the wireless telephone. 7. Departing from the Croydon Aerodrome. British manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft's “Argosy” had 3 1200 horsepower motors and seating for up to 20 passengers. It had a 100 mph cruising speed and passed Folkestone 45 minutes after takeoff. 2.5 hours after takeoff, they arrived in Brussels, where they stopped for lunch before resuming the Amsterdam Route. Key landmarks also mentioned. The backs of the cards also advertise that by mailing the complete set of 1-25 to Nicolas Sarony & Co in London, the customer would receive a travel book for mounting them. The Argosy flew for Imperial Airways from 1926 through 1935, when the switch to larger 4-engine planes was made. The airline merged into British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) in 1939. And in 1974, BOAC merged with British European Airways (BEA) to form British Airways.