G-ADHM, aptly positioned with the Empire State building in the background.

Servicing the Bristol Pegasus engines of an Empire Boat with Short Calcutta, G-AATZ, in the background.

Another view of Canopus. First of the Empire boats, she made her maiden flight on July 4, 1936, in the hands of J. Lankester Parker. G-ADHL was finally scrapped at Hythe in 1947.

Centaurus being towed to her moorings in Rose Bay, Sydney, 1939.

Circe, G-AETZ, with the liner Cape Town Castle giving scale to to the picture.

Castor, G-ADUW, seen on the Hythe slipway in 1938.

Servicing the Bristol Pegasus engines of an Empire Boat with Short Calcutta, G-AATZ, in the background.