The Short-Mayo Composite team, Mercury and Maia, delivered to IAL in June 1938.

The first Armstrong Whitworth A.W.27, G-ADSR Ensign, flying over Coventry in April 1938.

AW27 G-ADSU Euterpe takes on mail at Croydon.

Frobisher and a pair of Ensigns at Croydon.

Westland Wessex G-AAGW, one of two delivered in March 1936.

In-flight refuelling with Handley Page Harrow G-AFRL and Short S.30 G-AFCU Cabot, 1939.

The prototype D.H.91 Albatross, G-AEVV. Named Faraday, it served with Imperial Airways as a mail carrier from August 1939.

De Havilland D.H.91 G-AFDI Frobisher at Croydon

Frobisher and a pair of Ensigns at Croydon.

The passenger cabin of the de Havilland D.H.91 G-AFDI Frobisher

In-flight refuelling with Handley Page Harrow G-AFRL and Short S.30 G-AFCU Cabot, 1939.

Three Short ’boats at Rochester: G-AFCI Golden Hind, G-AFCU Cabot, and G-AFCV Caribou.

Short S.26 “G” class flying boat G-AFCI Golden Hind shortly after launch at Rochester on July 21, 1939.

Three Short ’boats at Rochester: G-AFCI Golden Hind, G-AFCU Cabot, and G-AFCV Caribou.